Results suggest that outcome expectations about whether a position can be defended are positively associated with aggressive recommendations.
As complexity increases, professionals with more procedural knowledge (a) favor less aggressive recommendations and (b) rely more heavily on their outcome expectations.
Although it is possible that more aggressive recommendations for salt restriction or their uptake may be more likely in high-risk patients (confounding by indication), the association between salt and adverse outcomes appeared to be independent of conventional factors that physicians may normally use to stratify risk.
We hypothesized that surgeons will report less palliative care training compared with medical physicians, and deficits in palliative care training will be associated with more aggressive treatment recommendations in clinical scenarios of advanced cancer patients with symptomatic surgical conditions.
Possible explanations for the general lack of differences include insufficient statistical power (due to the small sample size), patient non-adherence with the more aggressive treatment recommendations in the GCM arm, and a high quality of usual care making the benefit of the GCM arm harder to identify.
This aggressive new recommendation for warding off heart disease in some children has stirred a furious debate among pediatricians since the American Academy of Pediatrics issued it on Monday.
A provocative review paper published this month has raised questions about the aggressive cholesterol-lowering recommendations made two years ago by a government panel.
This advice was more aggressive than previous recommendations, which had called for scans only if patients had new or worsening symptoms.
Finally, our intervention was a universal intervention delivered generally, and not to a subset of aggressive youth, following recommendations designed to prevent the stigmatization or "deviancy training" that can result from interventions that form new peer groups of at-risk youth (Dishion & Tipsord, 2011; Dodge, Dishion, & Lansford, 2006).
30 31 53 68 72 73 74 75 At the provider level, some clinical practice guidelines have become less aggressive in their treatment recommendations.
As such, diabetes is currently regarded as a CHD risk equivalent [ 11, 12] and recommendations for aggressive risk factor management in the diabetic population reflect this high-risk status [ 13].
