Thus, globalization is taken to be a macro-sociological, aggregative fact that constrains the realization of democracy so long as the proper congruence between decision makers and decision takers is lacking.
Comparison of the composite scores of a Statement of Treatment Preferences indicated that congruence in decision-making for future medical treatment in patient-surrogate pairs in the treatment group was significantly higher than in the control group.
To date, no studies have examined the effect of ACP video decision aids on congruence of end-of-life treatment with patients' preferences, nor have they evaluated their impact when integrated into clinical care.
Thus, the main study hypotheses are: (1) Primary (a) The quality of CDM can be adequately described by taking into account decision making styles, satisfaction with decision making, and type of decision making ("paternalistic" vs. "shared" vs. "informed") from both patient and clinician perspective as well as their congruence or incongruence.
No studies reported whether the use of video decision aids affected the congruence of life-sustaining treatments at end of life with patients' prior expressed wishes.
Other decision-making outcomes included: agreement between values and chosen option, congruence of treatment preferences between child and parent, participation in decision-making process, decisional conflict, and communication [ 27, 28, 30, 32].
Analysing the congruence of the positive results of a given test and the decision to perform the AR procedure, we revealed that AR was most frequently performed in children with 'reflux' results from scintigraphy and upper GI series.
Studies of ACP video decision aids, to date, provide little or no data on other important outcomes related to ACP, such as confidence in decision-making, the actual use of life-sustaining treatments at end of life, or the congruence of end-of-life treatments with patients' wishes.
[But] there are some congruence of interests here.
Congruence of triangles is an equivalence relation in geometry.
In the latter work, one viscerally feels the congruence of urgently sensuous touch and near-orgiastic vision.
