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Newest firstBackground Unlike criminal defense with its cab-rank duty, surgeons are constrained by nonmaleficence. This review examines when declining aesthetic surgery requests constitutes ethical care rather than prejudice. Objectives To identify professional standards and empirical evidence guiding ethical decision-making when surgeons consider declining aesthetic surgery requests, and to provide a framework for principled…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background. Arthritis is a common chronic condition among older adults in Canada. Shared decision making (SDM) regarding medical cannabis (MC) use has been anticipated to result in improved health outcomes. However, the practice of SDM for MC remains limited. Few studies addressed what clinicians need to decide with their patients about MC. We explored clinicians' perspectives on what determines their decisional n…
BackgroundWomens autonomy in healthcare decision-making has become one of the most critical yet inequitably distributed determinants of health outcomes, gender equity, and sustainable development worldwide. In Northern Nigeria, the presence of ethnic and socio-cultural inequality is frequently concealed by the aggregated statistics of a region. MethodsThis cross-sectional secondary analysis utilized the 2024 Niger…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundAdvice and Guidance (A&G) enables primary care clinicians to seek specialist input, supporting decision making and avoiding unnecessary referrals. The use of A&G has significantly expanded, accelerated by COVID19 and contractual changes. While A&G is intended to streamline elective care, concerns persist regarding workload shift, variable responsiveness, and system usability. Despite growing policy empha…
Impaired decision-making is often seen in people with bipolar disorder (BD), even those undergoing treatment. Targeted therapeutics are therefore needed. People with BD report that cannabis use (CU) attenuates such cognitive and behavioral symptoms. We hypothesized that 1) people with BD who do not use cannabis would exhibit poor decision-making and functional capacity relative to healthy comparison (HC) participa…
The unintended biases introduced by optimization and machine learning (ML) models are a topic of great interest to medical researchers and professionals. Bias in healthcare decisions can cause patients from vulnerable populations (e.g., racially minoritized, low-income, or living in rural areas) to have lower access to resources and inferior outcomes, thus exacerbating societal unfairness. In this systematic liter…
Open article record in new tab ↗Objectives Emergency Medical Communication Centers (EMCC) have a key role in the prehospital chain-of-stroke-survival by recognizing stroke patients and reducing prehospital delay. However, studies on EMCC stroke recognition report both substantial undertriage and overtriage. Since mis-triage at the EMCC challenges the whole chain-of-stroke-survival, by occupying limited resources for non-stroke patients or failin…
Background Despite multiple recommendations and strategies implemented at a national and international level, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and cannabis use during pregnancy remains high in most countries. The objective of this study was to examine key stakeholders' perception of the treatment interventions adopted in Spain, to identify political, organizational and personal factors associated with succe…
Objective To characterize the patterns of cannabis use among gynecologic cancer patients, in terms of potential factors influencing their decision-making on cannabis use, the reasons for use or non-use, and sources of information on cannabis use. Methods From March to July 2022, gynecologic cancer patients at a clinic were interviewed and classified into 3 groups: current users, ex-users, and never-users. The rece…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundDecision making in the intensive care unit (ICU) is often complex, involving frequent interactions between patients, families, and health care professionals. Family members play an important role as surrogate decision markers because patients admitted in ICU lack decision-making capacity due to their critical state. Lack of regular, timeous, up to date and honest information provided by the ICU healthcar…
Open article record in new tab ↗The current study will examine the interactive effects of motives for cannabis use (i.e., health or recreational) and risky decision making (DM) on cannabis use trajectories among adolescents. Data from 171 adolescents, aged 14–17 at the initial visit (baseline), were prospectively analyzed across five time points approximately six months apart. Latent growth curve modeling and linear regression analyses were used…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundParental decision-making regarding childrens healthcare represents a complex and difficult process. While there is general agreement that information and education may play a key role in supporting self-care and the use of health services, there is potential for information to increase, as well as reduce anxiety. ObjectivesThis article summarises the key recommendations of an applied evaluation of a paed…
Open article record in new tab ↗Aims: Chronic cannabis users show impairments on laboratory measures of decision making which reflect risk factors for initiation and continued use of cannabis. However, the differential sensitivity of these tasks to cannabis use has not been established. Moreover, studies to date have often lacked assessment of psychiatric histories and use of other illicit substances, both of which may influence decision making…
Open article record in new tab ↗The decoy effect arises when the ratio of choosing B from A and B options is lower than the ratio of choosing B from A, B, and D options, wherein D is dominated by B. This decision pattern is obviously unreasonable but quite common. Previous research suggested that impulsive people have stronger decoy effect. Rs806379, as a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) locus of cannabis receptor 1 gene (CNR1), has signific…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background Prior to nonmedical cannabis legalization in Canada, individuals were only able to access cannabis legally through licensed producers with medical authorization. Now with an additional legal access system designed for nonmedical purposes, it is unclear what factors influence cancer survivors' decisions to medicate or not medicate cannabis as a complementary therapy to alleviate their cancer symptoms. Me…
Open article record in new tab ↗Animal studies point to an implication of the endocannabinoid system on executive functions. In humans, several studies have suggested an association between acute or chronic use of exogenous cannabinoids (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) and executive impairments. However, to date, no published reports establish the relationship between endocannabinoids, as biomarkers of the cannabinoid neurotransmission system, and exec…