Choose and Book is a central part of the UK Government patient choice agenda that seeks to provide patients with a choice over the time, date and place of their first outpatient appointment.
If the findings do stand up to replication, there could be consequences for the programme: for example, if the majority of patients are not experiencing a choice over appointment time and date, will it produce the expected reduction in non-attendance?
Those who avoid such a choice may, over time, risk losing their herds.
Since men lead most organizations, it's easy to see how they'd choose the person they typically have a beer with for a business opportunity – a choice that, over time, can have major organizational repercussions in the composition of team leaders.
Those booking appointments at the GP surgery are less likely to consider that they have been given a choice over the date or time of their appointment than patients booking their own appointments through the call centre or over the Internet.
Discounting-induced preference reversals make consistent and efficient choice over time a challenge.
Each trial's decoded choice over time is represented by a single trace, with the horizontal coordinate representing the decoded choice and time unfolding upward.
"If we're on the right track, and we think we are, then choice over time is less of an imperative," he said.
Rather, it figures as part of a conception of rationality that resolves the theoretical puzzles concerning rationality and choice over time posed by various dynamic choice problems.
The findings, reported online tomorrow in Biology Letters, could give clues to which acoustic features such as tempo and frequency mark a song as threatening, and how those subtle changes affect mate competition and choice over time.
