More specifically, m-health can result in major advances in (a) expanding healthcare coverage, (b) improving decision making, (c) managing chronic conditions and (d) providing suitable healthcare in emergencies.
Analyzing these studies, we identified 3 themes: (a) managing relationships between managers and staff, (b) staff participation in decision-making, and (c) work designs that foster staff interactions.
This study explores gendered experiences of the mastery stage in endurance runners' athletic careers in terms of (a) key themes in this period of life, (b) retirement decision-making and (c) changes in athletic and runner identities.
It required the subjects to report on: (a) their perceptions of the English teacher's responsibilities and their own; (b) their perceptions of their decision-making abilities; (c) their motivation to study English; and (d) how often they carried out different autonomous activities in and outside class. .
The objectives of this study were: a) to examine physician attitudes to and experience of the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in primary care; b) to investigate the influence of patient preferences on clinical decision-making; and c) to explore the role of intuition in family practice.
Moreover, the system capacity is affected by three parameters: (a) the class of mobile devices (due to different response time requirements per class [1]), (b) the number of reconfiguration decision-making requests and (c) the frequency of reconfiguration decision-making requests.
Our work was not intended to define general opinions and attitudes of physicians about living will, end-of-life therapies and decision-making processes (Gastmans C, De Lepeleire J, 2010), but our findings may be the basis for the development of tools for obtain that goal in the future.
Finally, it is important to stress that this study, which enhances the available information on health economics field in Brazil, intends to support medical and health-care professionals, by providing adequate information in decision-making on hepatitis C, a chronic disease which requires special attention to be provided to patients and to the management of resources used in its treatment.
Key criteria in this evaluation are: (a) to what extent the division of the population receiving assistance by gender contributes to maintaining/promoting a balanced demographic structure, (b) to what extent women are satisfactorily represented in decision-making processes, and (c) to what extent women's needs in rural areas are taken into account when activities are selected.
All procedures were approved by VA Central Institutional Review Board (HH QUERI RRP: 12 194; Development of a Shared Decision-Making Aid for Hepatitis C Treatment).
