We study ex post information rents in sequential screening models where the agent receives private ex ante and ex post information. The principal has to pay ex post information rents for preventing the agent to coordinate lies about his ex ante and ex post information. When the agent’s ex ante information is discrete, these rents are positive, whereas they are zero in continuous models. Consequ...

Family physicians, pediatricians, and geneticists meet a variety of young patients at various stages of the maturing process. As clinicians are privy to information about their patients that may be disturbing, they develop knowledge about human nature and decide, often along with parents, the appropriate level of information for different children and adolescents. And while it may be possible i...

OBJECTIVE Doctor-patient communication in oncology, particularly concerning diagnostic disclosure, is a crucial factor related to the quality of the doctor-patient relationship and the psychological state of the patient. The aims of our study were to investigate physicians' opinions and practice with respect to disclosure of a cancer diagnosis and to explore potential related factors. METHOD ...

One truth holds for the healthcare industry nothing should interfere with the delivery of care. Given this fact, the access control mechanisms used in healthcare to regulate and restrict the disclosure of data are often bypassed. This “break the glass” phenomenon is an established pattern in healthcare organizations and, though quite useful and mandatory in emergency situations, it represents a...

We consider an MRI scanning facility, run by a Radiology department, with limited capacity. Several medical departments compete for capacity, and have private information regarding their demand for scans. The fairness of the capacity allocation by the Radiology department depends on the quality of the information provided by the medical departments. We employ a generic Bayesian Game approach th...

Frege, and others who followed him, stressed the role of fallibility as a means to defining ‘objectivity.’ By defining objective judgments as fallible, these philosophers contributed to the consolidation of a theory of objectivity which suggested interpreting epistemological, as well as other judgements, as being objective. An important philosophical implication of this theory lies in its discl...

We consider an MRI scanning facility run by a Radiology department. Several hospital departments compete for capacity and have private information regarding their demand for scans. The fairness of the capacity allocation by the Radiology department depends on the quality of the information provided by the hospital departments. We employ a generic Bayesian game approach that stimulates the discl...