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Open AccessQuantitative futility in emergency laparotomy: an exploration of early-postoperative death in the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit
Quantitative futility is an appraisal of the risk of failure of a treatment. For those who do not survive, a laparotomy has provided negligible therapeutic benefit and may represent a missed opportunity for pa...
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Repeated Price Search
Consumers check few sites in online purchases. Previous research and experiments we perform demonstrate that consumers can not calculate the optimal strategy for price search. They use heuristics whose perform...
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Depth cue reliance in surgeons and medical students
Background: Depth perception is reduced in endoscopic surgery, although little is known about the effect this has on surgical performance. Methods: To assess the role of depth cues, 45 su...