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March 2006, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 162-172 Engineering Risk Analysis of a Hospital Oxygen Supply System
by Léa A. Deleris & Gee Liek Yeo & Adam Seiver & M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell - 173-181 Inconsistencies in TTO and VAS Values for EQ-5D Health States
by Leida M. Lamers & Peep F. M. Stalmeier & Paul F. M. Krabbe & Jan J. V. Busschbach - 182-193 The Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Reduce Mortality from an Intentional Release of Aerosolized Anthrax Spores
by R. Scott Braithwaite & Douglas Fridsma & Mark S. Roberts - 194-206 Cost-Effectiveness of Osteoporosis Screening and Treatment with Hormone Replacement Therapy, Raloxifene, or Alendronate
by Lee R. Mobley & Thomas J. Hoerger & John S. Wittenborn & Deborah A. Galuska & Jaya K. Rao - 207-209 Information for Authors
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January 2006, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 1-79 Abstracts
by N/A - 5-5 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 9-17 An Alternative Approach to Reducing the Costs of Patient Care? A Controlled Trial of the Multi-Disciplinary Doctor-Nurse Practitioner (MDNP) Model
by Susan L. Ettner & Jenny Kotlerman & Abdelmonem Afifi & Sondra Vazirani & Ron D. Hays & Martin Shapiro & Marie Cowan - 18-29 Estimating the Association between SF-12 Responses and EQ-5D Utility Values by Response Mapping
by Alastair M. Gray & Oliver Rivero-Arias & Philip M. Clarke - 30-37 Valuation Structures of Health States Revealed with Singular Value Decomposition
by Paul F. M. Krabbe - 38-47 Reassessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate (MCC) Vaccines Using a Transmission Dynamic Model
by Caroline L. Trotter & W. John Edmunds - 48-56 Physician Evaluation after Medical Errors: Does Having a Computer Decision Aid Help or Hurt in Hindsight?
by Mark V. Pezzo & Stephanie P. Pezzo - 57-62 Cross-sectional Analysis of Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Going to Meet the Inconsistencies
by Jacobus T. van Wyk & Marc A. M. van Wijk & Peter W. Moorman & Johan van der Lei - 63-75 Determining Indications for Care Common to Competing Guidelines by Using Classification Tree Analysis: Application to the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Medical Inpatients
by Jean-Luc Bosson & Jose Labarere - 76-85 Primary Care Physician Specialty Referral Decision Making: Patient, Physician, and Health Care System Determinants
by Christopher B. Forrest & Paul A. Nutting & Sarah von Schrader & Charles Rohde & Barbara Starfield - 86-87 Call for Nominations for SMDM Awards
by N/A - 88-90 Information for Authors
by N/A - 91-96 Abstract Author Index
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November 2005, Volume 25, Issue 6
- 601-604 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 605-606 Does Willingness to Pay per Quality-Adjusted Life Year Bring Us Closer to a Useful Decision Rule for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis?
by Daniel Polsky - 607-608 Einstein on Willingness to Pay per QALY: Is There a Better Way?
by F. Reed Johnson - 609-613 Can Prospect Theory Explain Risk-Seeking Behavior by Terminally Ill Patients?
by Emma B. Rasiel & Kevin P. Weinfurt & Kevin A. Schulman - 614-619 Cure Me Even If It Kills Me: Preferences for Invasive Cancer Treatment
by Angela Fagerlin & Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher & Peter A. Ubel - 620-632 Incorporating Biological Natural History in Simulation Models: Empirical Estimates of the Progression of End-Stage Liver Disease
by Oguzhan Alagoz & Cindy L. Bryce & Steven Shechter & Andrew Schaefer & Chung-Chou H. Chang & Derek C. Angus & Mark S. Roberts - 633-645 Estimation of Markov Chain Transition Probabilities and Rates from Fully and Partially Observed Data: Uncertainty Propagation, Evidence Synthesis, and Model Calibration
by Nicky J. Welton & A. E. Ades - 646-654 The Interpretation of Random-Effects Meta-Analysis in Decision Models
by A. E. Ades & G. Lu & J. P. T. Higgins - 655-666 Willingness to Pay per Quality-Adjusted Life Year in a Study of Knee Osteoarthritis
by Margaret M. Byrne & Kimberly O’Malley & Maria E. Suarez-Almazor - 667-677 Willingness to Pay for a Quality-Adjusted Life Year: Implications for Societal Health Care Resource Allocation
by Joseph T. King Jr. & Joel Tsevat & Judith R. Lave & Mark S. Roberts - 678-680 Local Applicability of Clinical and Model-Based Probability Estimates
by Ewout W. Steyerberg - 681-687 Index to Medical Decision Making
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September 2005, Volume 25, Issue 5
- 481-484 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 485-486 Comparing Model Structures in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Louise B. Russell - 487-489 Evidence Synthesis and Evidence-Based Decision Making: Related But Distinct Processes
by Steven M. Teutsch & Marc L. Berger - 490-492 Comprehensive Evaluations of Health Care Interventions: The Realism-Transparency Tradeoff
by John Hornberger & Katherine Robertus - 493-510 Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of New Pharmaceuticals in Epilepsy in Adults: The Results of a Probabilistic Decision Model
by Neil Hawkins & David Epstein & Michael Drummond & Jennifer Wilby & Anita Kainth & David Chadwick & Mark Sculpher - 511-519 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Treatments for Chronic Disease: Using R to Incorporate Time Dependency of Treatment Response
by Neil Hawkins & Mark Sculpher & David Epstein - 520-533 Analytic Choices in Economic Models of Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis: What Makes a Difference?
by M. F. Drummond & M. Barbieri & J. B. Wong - 534-547 Combining Registry, Primary, and Secondary Data Sources to Identify the Impact of Cancer on Labor Market Outcomes
by Cathy J. Bradley & David Neumark & Kathleen Oberst & Zhehui Luo & Simone Brennan & Maryjean Schenk - 548-559 Preference-Based Antithrombotic Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation: Implications for Clinical Decision Making
by Malcolm Man-Son-Hing & Brian F. Gage & Alan A. Montgomery & Alistair Howitt & Richard Thomson & P. J. Devereaux & Joanne Protheroe & Tom Fahey & David Armstrong & Andreas Laupacis - 560-570 Comparing the Standard Rating Scale and the Magnifier Scale for Assessing Risk Perceptions
by Andrea D. Gurmankin & Marie Helweg-Larsen & Katrina Armstrong & Stephen E. Kimmel & Kevin G. M. Volpp - 571-582 Community Blood Supply Model: Development of a New Model to Assess the Safety, Sufficiency, and Cost of the Blood Supply
by Brian Custer & Eric S. Johnson & Sean D. Sullivan & Tom K. Hazlet & Scott D. Ramsey & Edward L. Murphy & Michael P. Busch - 583-584 Book Review: Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values
by Brendan Delaney & T. H. Iqbal - 584-584 Book Review: Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology and Applications
by Brendan Delaney - 585-586 Request for Book Reviewers
by N/A - 587-588 Property
by Dennis J. Mazur - 592-592 Society for Medical Decision Making 27th Annual Meeting
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July 2005, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 361-365 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 366-369 Designing Trials and Deciding on Therapy in Complex Diseases: What Can We Do to Improve?
by William A. Knaus - 370-373 “Bridging On the River Kwai†: The Perioperative Management of Anticoagulation Therapy
by Mark H. Eckman - 374-386 Determinants of Mortality in Patients with Severe Sepsis
by Joseph A. Johnston - 387-397 Perioperative Management of Patients on Oral Anticoagulants: A Decision Analysis
by Andrew S. Dunn & Juan Wisnivesky & Warren Ho & Carlton Moore & Thomas McGinn & Henry S. Sacks - 398-405 Reducing the Influence of Anecdotal Reasoning on People’s Health Care Decisions: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Statistics?
by Angela Fagerlin & Catharine Wang & Peter A. Ubel - 406-415 Methods to Estimate the Optimal Threshold for Normally or Log-Normally Distributed Biological Tests
by Jérôme Jund & Muriel Rabilloud & Martine Wallon & René Ecochard - 416-423 How Sensitive Are Cost-Effectiveness Analyses to Choice of Parametric Distributions?
by Simon G. Thompson & Richard M. Nixon - 424-428 Quality of Abstracts of Papers Reporting Original Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
by Allison B. Rosen & Dan Greenberg & Patricia W. Stone & Natalia V. Olchanski & Peter J. Neumann - 429-436 Can We Better Prioritize Resources for Cost-Utility Research?
by Peter J. Neumann & Allison B. Rosen & Dan Greenberg & Natalia V. Olchanski & Richa Pande & Richard H. Chapman & Patricia W. Stone & Silvia Ondategui-Parra & John Nadai & Joanna E. Siegel & Milton C. Weinstein - 437-448 Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Smoking Cessation: Standardizing the Cost-Effectiveness
by E. T. Ronckers & W. Groot & A.J.H.A. Ament - 449-459 Are Preferences for Equality a Matter of Perspective?
by David L.B. Schwappach - 460-467 The QALY Model and Individual Preferences for Health States and Health Profiles over Time: A Systematic Review of the Literature
by Aki Tsuchiya & Paul Dolan - 468-470 Ward Edwards: Father of Behavioral Decision Theory
by Dennis Fryback - 471-471 Erratum
by N/A - 475-475 Society for Medical Decision Making 27th Annual Meeting
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May 2005, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 241-245 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 246-247 Benefits, Harms, and the Design of Clinical Trials
by Donald A. Brand - 248-249 Are We Ready for Patient-Based Effect Sizes in Clinical-Trials Research?
by Harold P. Lehmann - 250-261 Sufficiently Important Difference: Expanding the Framework of Clinical Significance
by Bruce Barrett & David Brown & Marlon Mundt & Roger Brown - 262-282 Assessing the Likelihood of an Important Clinical Outcome: New Insights from a Comparison of Clinical and Actuarial Judgment
by Tim Rakow & Charles Vincent & Kate Bull & Nigel Harvey - 283-289 Mammographers’ Perception of Women’s Breast Cancer Risk
by Joseph R. Egger & Gary R. Cutter & Patricia A. Carney & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & R. Edward Hendrick & Carl J. D’Orsi & Jessica S. Fosse & Linn Abraham & Joann G. Elmore - 290-300 Can Patients Interpret Health Information? An Assessment of the Medical Data Interpretation Test
by Lisa M. Schwartz & Steven Woloshin & H. Gilbert Welch - 301-307 Decreased Use of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Decision Aid with Individualized Risk Information
by Pamela B. Peele & Laura A. Siminoff & Ying Xu & Peter M. Ravdin - 308-320 Is Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Bacterial Endocarditis Cost-Effective?
by Zia Agha & Richard P. Lofgren & Jerome V. VanRuiswyk - 321-329 Optimal Allocation of Testing Dollars: The Example of HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral
by Rochelle P. Walensky & Milton C. Weinstein & Heather E. Smith & Kenneth A. Freedberg & A. David Paltiel - 330-340 The Cost-Effectiveness of Raising the Legal Smoking Age in California
by Sajjad Ahmad - 341-347 How Much Does It Cost to Change the Behavior of Health Professionals? A Mathematical Model and an Application to Academic Detailing
by Afschin Gandjour & Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach - 348-349 Rewarding Extraordinary Inventions
by Dennis J. Mazur - 350-351 From Comparative Judgments to Absolute Scales
by Alan Schwartz
March 2005, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 146-146 The Importance of Cognitive Outcomes
by Lee Green - 147-148 Ubiquitous but Unfinished: Online Information Retrieval Systems
by William R. Hersh - 149-157 The Value of Diagnostic Information to Patients with Chest Pain Suggestive of Coronary Artery Disease
by Alvin I. Mushlin & Lisa M. Kern & Mary Paris & David R. Lambert & Geoffrey Williams - 158-167 Invariance and Inconsistency in Utility Ratings
by Dena M. Bravata & Lorene M. Nelson & Alan M. Garber & Mary K. Goldstein - 168-177 A New Logistic Regression Approach for the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test Results
by A. Cecile J. W. Janssens & Yazhong Deng & Gerard J. J. M. Borsboom & Marinus J. C. Eijkemans & J. Dik. F. Habbema & Ewout W. Steyerberg - 178-185 The Impact of an Online Evidence System on Confidence in Decision Making in a Controlled Setting
by Johanna I. Westbrook & A. Sophie Gosling & Enrico W. Coiera - 186-198 Options for Handling Missing Data in the Health Utilities Index Mark 3
by Arash Naeim & Emmett B. Keeler & Carol M. Mangione - 199-209 A Clinically Based Discrete-Event Simulation of End-Stage Liver Disease and the Organ Allocation Process
by Steven M. Shechter & Cindy L. Bryce & Oguzhan Alagoz & Jennifer E. Kreke & James E. Stahl & Andrew J. Schaefer & Derek C. Angus & Mark S. Roberts - 210-221 Withholding or Starting Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Dementia and Pneumonia: Prediction of Mortality with Physicians’ Judgment of Illness Severity and with Specific Prognostic Models
by Jenny T. van der Steen & Marcel E. Ooms & Gerrit van der Wal & Miel W. Ribbe - 222-228 Medical Decision Making with Incomplete Evidence—Choosing a Platelet Glycoprotein IIbIIIa Receptor Inhibitor for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
by James M. Brophy & Lawrence Joseph - 229-229 Jury Rationality
by Dennis J. Mazur - 230-230 Abstracts from the 2004 Annual SMDM Meeting: Medical Decision Making on the Web
by Mark Helfand & Kathryn Pyle Krages
January 2005, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 1-60 Abstracts from the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by N/A - 5-7 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 8-10 A Look Back...and Ahead
by Mark Helfand - 11-19 Optimal Statistical Decisions for Hospital Report Cards
by Peter C. Austin & Geoffrey M. Anderson - 20-34 Is Risk-Adjustor Selection More Important Than Statistical Approach for Provider Profiling? Asthma as an Example
by I-Chan Huang & Francesca Dominici & Constantine Frangakis & Gregory B. Diette & Cheryl L. Damberg & Albert W. Wu - 35-46 A Methodological Framework for Optimally Reorganizing Liver Transplant Regions
by James E. Stahl & Nan Kong & Steven M. Shechter & Andrew J. Schaefer & Mark S. Roberts - 47-55 Using Benefit Harm Tradeoffs to Estimate Sufficiently Important Difference: The Case of the Common Cold
by Bruce Barrett & Roger Brown & Marlon Mundt & Leota Dye & Jennifer Alt & Nasia Safdar & Rob Maberry - 56-70 Health State Utilities for Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Based on Parent Preferences in the United Kingdom
by Kristina Secnik & Louis S. Matza & Suzi Cottrell & Eric Edgell & Dominic Tilden & Sally Mannix - 71-80 Impact of Generic Drug Entry on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Ya-Chen Tina Shih & Shu Han & Scott B. Cantor - 81-81 Clinical Decision-Making Rounds at the Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospital
by Stephen G. Pauker - 82-94 DEALE-ing with Lung Cancer and Heart Failure
by Manu Sondhi & John R. Goffin & Brian J. Cohen & John B. Wong & Stephen G. Pauker - 95-96 Emotions, Decisions, and the Limits of Rationality: Symposium Introduction
by Peter A. Ubel - 96-105 Projection Bias in Medical Decision Making
by George Loewenstein - 105-112 When Thinking Feels Difficult: Meta-Cognitive Experiences in Judgment and Decision Making
by Norbert Schwarz - 112-118 The Role of Stereotypes in Decision-Making Processes
by Galen V. Bodenhausen - 119-126 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making Presidential Address: Connections
by Scott B. Cantor - 127-128 Personal Information
by Dennis J. Mazur - 129-129 SMDM Trustees Roster
by N/A - 130-130 Call for Nominations for SMDM Officers
by N/A - 131-132 Call for Nominations for SMDM Awards
by N/A - 133-135 Information for Authors
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November 2004, Volume 24, Issue 6
- 557-560 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 561-572 Reader Variability in Mammography and Its Implications for Expected Utility over the Population of Readers and Cases
by Robert F. Wagner & Craig A. Beam & Sergey V. Beiden - 573-583 The Application of the Heuristic-Systematic Processing Model to Treatment Decision Making about Prostate Cancer
by Suzanne K. Steginga & Stefano Occhipinti - 584-601 A Cost-Utility Analysis of Neonatal Circumcision
by Robert S. Van Howe - 602-613 Decision Making in a Multidisciplinary Cancer Team: Does Team Discussion Result in Better Quality Decisions?
by Frank Kee & Tracy Owen & Ruth Leathem - 614-624 An Exploration of Relative Health Stock in Advanced Cancer Patients
by Darrell J. Gaskin & Kevin P. Weinfurt & Liana D. Castel & Venita DePuy & Yun Li & Andrew Balshem & Al Benson & Caroline B. Burnett & Sandra Corbett & John Marshall & Elyse Slater & Daniel P. Sulmasy & David Van Echo & Neal J. Meropol & Kevin A. Schulman - 625-633 A Comparison of 3 Valuation Methods for Temporary Health States in Patients Treated with Oral Anticoagulants
by Mirjam Locadia & Peep F. M. Stalmeier & Frans J. Oort & Martin H. Prins & Mirjam A. G. Sprangers & Patrick M. M. Bossuyt - 634-653 A Bayesian Approach to Net Health Benefits: An Illustration and Application to Modeling HIV Prevention
by Ana P. Johnson-Masotti & Purushottam W. Laud & Raymond G. Hoffmann & Matthew J. Hayat & Steven D. Pinkerton - 654-658 On Uncertainty in Medical Testing
by Robert L. Winkler & James E. Smith - 659-669 Combining Correlated Diagnostic Tests: Application to Neuropathologic Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
by Chengjie Xiong & Daniel W. McKeel Jr & J. Philip Miller & John C. Morris - 670-680 Alternative Tree-Structured Survival Analysis Based on Variance of Survival Time
by Hua Jin & Ying Lu & Kaite Stone & Dennis M. Black - 681-686 Theory about Heuristic Strategies Based on Verbal Protocol Analysis: The Emperor Needs a Shave
by Robert M. Hamm - 687-687 Response to Commentary
by Suzanne K. Steginga & Stefano Occhipinti - 688-692 Neonatal Circumcision: Cost-Effective Preventive Measure or “the Unkindest Cut of All†?
by Darryl T. Gray - 693-693 Michael M. Ravitch
by Arthur S. Elstein - 694-694 Societal Values and Information Privacy
by Dennis J. Mazur - 695-696 Index to Abstract Authors
by N/A - 697-703 INDEX to MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
by N/A - 704-706 Information for Authors
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October 2004, Volume 24, Issue 5
- 457-460 Clinical Applications
by N/A - 461-471 Reorganizing the System of Care Surrounding Laparoscopic Surgery: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Discrete-Event Simulation
by James E. Stahl & David Rattner & Richard Wiklund & Jessica Lester & Molly Beinfeld & G. Scott Gazelle - 472-485 Pramipexole v. Levodopa as Initial Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Clinical-Economic Trial
by Katia Noyes & Andrew W. Dick & Robert G. Holloway - 486-492 The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Programs Using Single and Multiple Birth Cohort Simulations: A Comparison Using a Model of Cervical Cancer
by Sarah Dewilde & Rob Anderson - 493-503 A Comparison of Different Strategies to Collect Standard Gamble Utilities
by Thomas Hammerschmidt & Hans-Peter Zeitler & Markus Gulich & Reiner Leidl - 504-510 Preference Assessment Method Affects Decision-Analytic Recommendations: A Prostate Cancer Treatment Example
by Elena B. Elkin & Mark E. Cowen & Daniel Cahill & Mary Steffel & Michael W. Kattan - 511-517 Correcting Biases in Standard Gamble and Time Tradeoff Utilities
by Sylvie M. C. van Osch & Peter P. Wakker & Wilbert B. van den Hout & Anne M. Stiggelbout - 518-524 Medical and Nonmedical Determinants of Decision Making about Potentially Life-Prolonging Interventions
by Agnes van der Heide & Astrid Vrakking & Hans van Delden & Caspar Looman & Paul van der Maas - 525-533 Group Sequential Design for Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy Studies: Implications and Guidelines for Practitioners
by Madhu Mazumdar - 534-535 To Err Is Human
by Stephen D. Roberts - 536-537 The Implications of Differing Methods of Utility Assessment for Patient-Specific Decision-Analytic Tools
by Michael S. Yi - 538-544 Unfinished Symphony: A Tribute to the Life and Career of Bernie O’Brien (1959–2004)
by Andrew Briggs & Martin Buxton & Mike Drummond & Ron Goeree & Mark J. Sculpher & Andrew R. Willan - 545-545 Negligence and Human Subjects Research
by Dennis J. Mazur - 546-547 Book Review
by Cathy J. Bradley - 548-550 Information for Authors
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August 2004, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 327-329 Highlights Of This Issue
by N/A - 330-350 A Single Mathematical Model Predicts Physicians’ Recommendations and Postmenopausal Women’s Decisions to Participate in a Clinical Trial to Prevent Breast Cancer or Coronary Heart Disease
by Clairice T. Veit - 351-358 Refining Estimates of Major Depression Incidence and Episode Duration in Canada Using a Monte Carlo Markov Model
by Scott B. Patten & Robert C. Lee - 359-366 Decision Aids for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Applicability across Race and Education
by David R. Rovner & Celia E. Wills & Vence Bonham & Gilbert Williams & Janet Lillie & Karen Kelly-Blake & Mark V. Williams & Margaret Holmes-Rovner - 367-378 Positive Association between Current Health and Health Values for Hypothetical Disease States
by Joseph T. King Jr. & Joel Tsevat & Mark S. Roberts - 379-385 Women’s Preferences for Doctor’s Involvement in Decisions about Mammography Screening
by Eric Chamot & Agathe Charvet & Thomas V. Perneger - 386-398 Classification Algorithms for Hip Fracture Prediction Based on Recursive Partitioning Methods
by Hua Jin & Ying Lu & Steven T. Harris & Dennis M. Black & Katie Stone & Marc C. Hochberg & Harry K. Genant - 399-407 Exploration of a Bayesian Updating Methodology to Monitor the Safety of Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures
by Frederic S. Resnic & Kelly H. Zou & Daihung V. Do & George Apostolakis & Lucila Ohno-Machado - 408-420 Presidential Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by Arthur S. Elstein & Dennis G. Fryback & Milton C. Weinstein & Stephen G. Pauker & Margaret Holmes-Rovner & Mark J. Young & Michael J. Barry & Mark H. Eckman & M. G. Myriam Hunink & Joel Tsevat & John B. Wong - 421-421 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 422-446 Abstracts from the European Society for Medical Decision Making Meeting Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 7-8, 2004
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June 2004, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 243-246 Highlights of this Issue
by Peter Franks & Erica I. Lubetkin & Marthe R. Gold & Daniel J. Tancredi & Haomiao Jia & Patricia A. Carney & Joann G. Elmore & Linn A. Abraham & Martha S. Gerrity & R. Edward Hendrick & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & Gary R. Cutter & Steven P. Poplack & Carl J. D’Orsie & Andrea D. Gurmankin & Jonathan Baron & Katrina Armstrong & Adam Oliver & David M. Kent & A. Mark Fendrick & Kenneth M. Langa & Fumie Yokota & Kimberly M. Thompson & Charles F. Babbs & Guangyong Zou - 247-254 Mapping the SF-12 to the EuroQol EQ-5D Index in a National US Sample
by Peter Franks & Erica I. Lubetkin & Marthe R. Gold & Daniel J. Tancredi & Haomiao Jia - 255-264 Radiologist Uncertainty and the Interpretation of Screening
by Patricia A. Carney & Joann G. Elmore & Linn A. Abraham & Martha S. Gerrity & R. Edward Hendrick & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & Gary R. Cutter & Steven P. Poplack & Carl J. D’Orsi - 265-271 The Effect of Numerical Statements of Risk on Trust and Comfort with Hypothetical Physician Risk Communication
by Andrea D. Gurmankin & Jonathan Baron & Katrina Armstrong - 272-280 Prioritizing Health Care: Is “Health†Always an Appropriate Maximand?
by Adam Oliver - 281-286 New and Dis-Improved: On the Evaluation and Use of Less Effective, Less Expensive Medical Interventions
by David M. Kent & A. Mark Fendrick & Kenneth M. Langa - 287-298 Value of Information Literature Analysis: A Review of Applications in Health Risk Management
by Fumie Yokota & Kimberly M. Thompson - 299-312 Meta-Analysis of 2-Treatment Clinical Trials Including Both Continuous and Dichotomous Results
by Charles F. Babbs - 313-318 From Diagnostic Accuracy to Accurate Diagnosis: Interpreting a Test Result with Confidence
by Guangyong Zou - 319-319 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 320-320 Erratum
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March 2004, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 117-121 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 122-130 Influence of Clinical and Economical Factors on the Expert Rating of Appropriateness of Preoperative Use of Recombinant Erythropoietin in Elective Orthopedic Surgery Patients
by Patrick Taffé & Bernard Burnand & Vincent Wietlisbach & John-Paul Vader - 131-141 Parametric Mean Survival Time Analysis in Gastric Cancer Patients
by Shunzo Maetani & Toshifusa Nakajima & Toshikuni Nishikawa - 142-148 “Is 28% Good or Bad?†Evaluability and Preference Reversals in Health Care Decisions
by Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher & Angela Fagerlin & Peter A. Ubel - 149-159 Avoidance of Anticipated Regret: The Ordering of Prostate-Specific Antigen Tests
by Paul Clay Sorum & Etienne Mullet & Junseop Shim & Sylvie Bonnin-Scaon & Gérard Chasseigne & Joël Cogneau - 160-169 Predicting EuroQoL EQ-5D Preference Scores from the SF-12 Health Survey in a Nationally Representative Sample
by William F. Lawrence & John A. Fleishman - 170-180 The Validity of Person Tradeoff Measurements: Randomized Trial of Computer Elicitation Versus Face-to-Face Interview
by Laura J. Damschroder & Jonathan Baron & John C. Hershey & David A. Asch & Christopher Jepson & Peter A. Ubel - 181-191 HIV Prevention, Cost-Utility Analysis, and Race/Ethnicity: Methodological Considerations and Recommendations
by David R. Holtgrave - 192-206 A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response
by Dena M. Bravata & Kathryn M. McDonald & Herbert Szeto & Wendy M. Smith & Chara Rydzak & Douglas K. Owens - 207-227 Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations in Medical Decision Modeling
by A. E. Ades & G. Lu & K. Claxton - 228-231 The Appropriateness Method
by Paul Shekelle - 232-234 Is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Unfair?
by Louise B. Russell - 235-235 Negligence Law
by Dennis J. Mazur - 236-237 The State of the Field
by Alan Schwartz
January 2004, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 5-8 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 9-19 Cost-Effectiveness of Sibutramine in the Treatment of Obesity
by Emma Warren & Alan Brennan & Ron Akehurst - 20-29 Estimating the Prognosis of Hepatitis C Patients Infected by Transfusion in Canada between 1986 and 1990
by Murray Krahn & John B. Wong & Jenny Heathcote & Linda Scully & Leonard Seeff - 30-39 Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Vertical HIV Transmission from Pregnant Women Who Have Not Received Prenatal Care
by Joseph M. Mrus & Joel Tsevat - 40-52 Health State Utilities in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Patients with Heartburn: A Study in Germany and Sweden
by Bernt Kartman & Gudrun Gatz & Magnus Johannesson - 53-60 A Comparison of Narrative and Table Formats for Presenting Hypothetical Health States to Patients with Gastrointestinal or Pulmonary Disease
by Holger J. Schünemann & Elisabeth Ståhl & Peggy Austin & Elie Akl & David Armstrong & Gordon H. Guyatt - 61-63 The Relationship between the Visual Analog Scale and the SF-36 Scales in the General Population: An Update
by Amir Shmueli - 64-79 Alternative Medicine or “Alternative†Patients: A Qualitative Study of Patient-Oriented Decision-Making Processes with Respect to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by Opher Caspi & Mary Koithan & Michael W. Criddle - 80-88 The GAME Estimate of Reduced Life Expectancy
by Wilbert B. van den Hout - 89-100 Gaussian Process Modeling in Conjunction with Individual Patient Simulation Modeling: A Case Study Describing the Calculation of Cost-Effectiveness Ratios for the Treatment of Established Osteoporosis
by M. D. Stevenson & J. Oakley & J. B. Chilcott - 101-101 Negligence Law
by Dennis J. Mazur - 102-104 Heterogeneity Bias: The Difference between Adjusted and Unadjusted Effects
by Ewout W. Steyerberg & Marinus J. C. Eijkemans
November 2003, Volume 23, Issue 6
- 463-470 What Is the Least Costly Strategy to Evaluate Cervical Abnormalities in Rural Women? Comparing Telemedicine, Local Practitioners, and Expert Physicians
by David M. Bishai & Daron G. Ferris & Mark S. Litaker - 471-479 Men with Prostate Cancer: Making Decisions about Complementary/Alternative Medicine
by Heather Boon & Judith Belle Brown & Alan Gavin & Kathleen Westlake - 480-488 Paper Standard Gamble: The Reliability of a Paper Questionnaire to Assess Utility
by Benjamin Littenberg & Steven Partilo & Anita Licata & Michael W. Kattan - 489-501 A Comparison of the Health Utilities Indices Mark 2 and Mark 3 in Type 2 Diabetes
by Sheri L. Maddigan & David H. Feeny & Jeffrey A. Johnson - 502-510 Attitudes, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and Actual End-of-Life Decisions of Physicians in Flanders, Belgium
by F. Mortier & J. Bilsen & R. H. Vander Stichele & J. Bernheim & L. Deliens - 511-517 Variations in Risk Attitude across Race, Gender, and Education
by Allison B. Rosen & Jerry S. Tsai & Stephen M. Downs - 518-525 When Is It Worth Introducing a Quality Improvement Program? A Mathematical Model
by Afschin Gandjour & Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach