http://alignmap.com/2007/04/05/incredibly-banal-ideas-tarted-up-in-fancy-dress/ Beyond Compliance, Adherence, & Concordance - Supporting The Patient's Implementation Of Optimal Treatment Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://alignmap.com/2007/04/05/incredibly-banal-ideas-tarted-up-in-fancy-dress/comment-page-1/#comment-2513 Cervantes Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:16:11 +0000 http://alignmap.com/2007/04/05/incredibly-banal-ideas-tarted-up-in-fancy-dress/#comment-2513 Thanks for the link. Since I use a pseudonym on my site I have the luxury of being undiplomatic at times about the scholarly world. Anyway, I would say that just because people aren't "rational" decisionmakers in the health beliefs model sense, doesn't mean they are irrational in a more philosophically sophisticated sense. It's just that they have many concerns beyond actuarially maximizing their expected QALYs. Thanks for the link. Since I use a pseudonym on my site I have the luxury of being undiplomatic at times about the scholarly world. Anyway, I would say that just because people aren’t “rational” decisionmakers in the health beliefs model sense, doesn’t mean they are irrational in a more philosophically sophisticated sense. It’s just that they have many concerns beyond actuarially maximizing their expected QALYs.

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