No options about how it might operate beyond 2018 have even been put to me, let alone decisions made".
Department of Education officials say DeVos is the lightest of lightweights, and that a handful of her appointees are running the policy efforts at ED, cutting most career staff out of the loop of information, let alone decision-making.
In one study, coaching alone increased child decision making satisfaction and improved parent and child values congruence.
Those who were not alone in terms of decision making about healthcare (−5%, CI = 0.63 1.21) and visits (−1%, CI = 0.69 2.11) were less probable to deliver in health facilities as compared to those taking those decisions alone (reference category).
And this is a system that was not designed to permit, let alone encourage, local level decision making.
Health costs alone are of limited use for decision making.
Stopping guidelines are based on safety alone and will be a decision made by the iDSMB according to the Terms of Reference.
The foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, is not a member of the Communist Party's 25-member Politburo, let alone its nine-member, decision-making Standing Committee.
As most experienced clinicians acknowledge, RCTs in critical care help set general directives and raise important questions but alone cannot reliably guide decisions made for the individual.
First, all women were asked: "Who usually makes decisions about health care for you?" Women who reported that they make the decisions alone or make the decisions jointly with their partner were the reference group (high decision-making autonomy), and were compared to women who reported that their partner makes the decision alone (low decision-making autonomy).
Alternatively, higher empowerment scores could indicate male partner absence, such as a spouse who works abroad, where women alone bear the burden of decision-making out of necessity – which is not the aim of empowerment approaches.
