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August 1998, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 249-255 Perfect Timing, No Remorse, and Kidney Transplantation
by Donald A. Brand
- 256-267 Using a Treatment-tradeoff Method to Elicit Preferences for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer
by Michael D. Brundage & Judith R. Davidson & William J. Mackillop & Deb Feldman-Stewart & Patti Groome
- 268-277 Assessment of the Time-tradeoff Val ues for Prophylactic Mastectomy of Women with a Suspected Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer
by Ivana Unic & Peep F.M. Stalmeier & Lia C.G. Verhoef & Willem A.J. Van Daal
- 278-286 Prostate Cancer Patients' Utilities for Health States
by Gretchen B. Chapman & Arthur S. Elstein & Timothy M. Kuzel & Roohollah Sharifi & Robert B. Nadler & Anita Andrews & Charles L. Bennett
- 286-286 Correction
by N/A
- 287-294 More Evidence of the Plateau Effect
by Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades & Angel Lopez-Nicolás
- 295-303 Randomized Trial of a Portable, Self-administered Decision Aid for Postmenopausal Women Considering Long-term Preventive Hormone Therapy
by Annette M. O'Connor & Peter Tugwell & George A. Wells & Tom Elmslie & Elaine Jolly & Gary Hollingworth & Ruth Mcpherson & Elizabeth Drake & Wilma Hopman & Thomas Mackenzie
- 304-310 Text-to-algorithm Conversion to Facilitate Comparison of Competing Clinical Guidelines
by Nurit Barak & Carmi Z. Margolis & Lawrence K. Gottlieb
- 311-319 Validation of Models for Predicting the Use of Health Technologies
by João D. Scalon & Sergio M. Freire & Tacio A. Cunha
- 320-329 The Association of Physician Attitudes about Uncertainty and Risk Taking with Resource Use in a Medicare HMO
by Jeroan J. Allison & Catarina I. Kiefe & E. Francis Cook & Martha S. Gerrity & E. John Orav & Robert Centor
- 330-336 Nonparametric Willingness-to-pay Measures and Confidence Statements
by Magnus Tambour & Niklas Zethraeus
- 337-346 Uncertainty in Decision Models Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness
by Maria G.M. Hunink & Jan Roelf Bult & Jelle De Vries & Milton C. Weinstein
- 347-348 On the Dilemma of Preemptive Kidney Transplantation
by Israel David & John Hornberger & Joseph S. Pliskin
- 349-350 Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, and Calibration
by Ewout W. Steyerberg & Frank E. Harrell JR & Philip H. Goodman
- 351-352 Book Reviews : How To Report Statistics In Medicine. Annotated Guidelines for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers. By THOMAS A. LANG and MICHELLE SECIC. Philadelphia: Amer ican College of Physicians, 1997, xxvi + 367 pp., price $39.95
by N/A
- 352-354 Book Reviews : Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. By LEE M. SILVER. New York: Avon Books, 1997. 317 pp, hardbound, $25.00
by N/A
- 354-355 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
1998, Volume 18, Issue 2
April 1998, Volume 18, Issue 2_suppl
January 1998, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-2 Improving Evidence-based Decision Making—Recent Advances in Research-transfer Models
by N/A
- 2-9 The Cochrane Collaboration-Advances and Challenges in Improving Evidence-based Decision Making
by Alejandro R. Jadad & R. Brian Haynes
- 9-16 The Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network and the Critical Care Research Network as Vehicles for Research Transfer
by William J. Sibbald & Jennifer D. Kossuth
- 16-18 Discussion
by C. David Naylor
- 19-28 Is the Defensive Use of Diagnostic Tests Good for Patients, or Bad?
by Michael L. DeKay & David A. Asch
- 29-31 Expected-utility Perspectives on Defensive Testing
by Stephen G. Pauker & Susan P. Pauker
- 32-33 Laboratory Testing May Not Glitter Like Gold
by David R. Rovner
- 33-34 Defensive Diagnostic Testing—A Case of Stolen Utility?
by Douglas K. Owens
- 35-36 Offensive Testing—the Balancing Act, the Evil Twin, and the Pure Play
by Michael L. DeKay & David A. Asch
- 37-43 Meta-analysis of Multitreatment Studies
by Vic Hasselblad
- 44-51 The Economics of Treatment for Infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome
by Nancy Neil & Sean D. Sullivan & Daniel S. Lessler
- 52-60 Fitting Multistate Transition Models with Autoregressive Logistic Regression
by Sybolt O. de Vries & Vaclav Fidler & Wietze D. Kuipers & Maria G.M. Hunink
- 61-69 What Attitudes and Beliefs Underlie Patients' Decisions about Participating in Chemotherapy Trials?
by Heather J. Sutherland & Raquel da Cunha & Gina A. Lockwood & James E. Till
- 70-75 Neural Network Assessment of Perioperative Cardiac Risk in Vascular Surgery Patients
by Pablo Lapuerta & Gilbert J. L'Italien & Sumita Paul & Robert C. Hendel & Jeffrey A. Leppo & Lee A. Fleisher & Mylan C. Cohen & Kim A. Eagle & Robert P. Giugliano
- 76-83 The Effect of Search Procedures on Utility Elicitations
by Leslie A. Lenert & Daniel J. Cher & Mary K. Goldstein & Merlynn R. Bergen & Alan Garber
- 84-94 Treatment Choices by Seriously III Patients
by Darrell J. Gaskin & Janet Kong & Neal J. Meropol & K. Robin Yabroff & Charles Weaver & Kevin A. Schulman
- 95-109 Sensitivity Analysis and the Expected Value of Perfect Information
by James C. Felli & Gordon B. Hazen
- 110-121 Statistical Comparison of Two ROC-curve Estimates Obtained from Partially-paired Datasets
by Charles E. Metz & Benjamin A. Herman & Cheryl A. Roe
- 122-123 Neural Networks and the Roles of Cross Validation
by Jørgen Hilden
- 123-124 In reply
by Georgia D. Tourassi & Carey E. Floyd JR.
- 124-124 Book Reviews : Analysis and Evaluation of Health Care Systems: An Integrated Approach to Managerial Decision Making. By THOMAS T. H. Wan. Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press, 1995, 231 pp., $48.00 hardbound
by Paul F. Gross
- 124-126 Book Reviews : Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services Management. By LEE F. SIEDEL, ROBIN D. GORSKY, and JAMES B. Lewis, Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press, 1995, 256 pp, $40.00 hardbound
by Sundar Natarajan
- 126-126 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
- 127-127 Law and Ethics (Nursing and Malpractice Liability)
by N/A
- 127-127 Law and Ethics (Role of Forensic Psychiatric Consultation in Managing Malpractice Risks)
by N/A
- 128-130 Announcements and Notices
by N/A
October 1997, Volume 17, Issue 4
- 363-372 Cost-Effectiveness of Repeat Medical Procedures
by John C. Hornberger & Jennie H. Best & Louis P. Garrison Jr.
- 373-381 The Cost-Effectiveness of Fluconazole Prophylaxis against Primary Systemic Fungal Infections in AIDS Patients
by Julie A. Scharfstein & A. David Paltiel & Kenneth A. Freedberg
- 382-389 Incorporating Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Magnus Johannesson & David Meltzer & Richard M. O'Conor
- 390-401 Assessing Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
by Giovanni Parmigiani & Greg P. Samsa & Marek Ancukiewicz & Joseph Lipscomb & Vic Hasselblad & David B. Matchar
- 402-408 Are Methods for Estimating QALYs in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Improving?
by Peter J. Neumann & Darren E. Zinner & Janice C. Wright
- 409-426 A Normative Analytic Framework for Development of Practice Guidelines for Specific Clinical Populations
by Douglas K. Owens & Robert F. Nease Jr.
- 427-430 A Survey of Clinicians' Opinions Regarding the Value of Published Decision Analyses as Sources of Clinically Useful Information
by James G. Dolan
- 431-438 Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Estimating Quality-adjusted Life Years
by Scott D. Ramsey & Ruth Etzioni & Andrea Troxel & Nicole Urban
- 439-446 Construct Validities of the Quality of Well-Being Scale and the MOS-HIV-34 Health Survey for HIV-infected Patients
by Tom E. Hughes & Robert M. Kaplan & Stephen Joel Coons & Jolaine R. Draugalis & Jeffrey A. Johnson & Thomas L. Patterson
- 447-454 Application of Treatment Thresholds to Diagnostic-test Evaluation
by Karel G.M. Moons & Theo Stijnen & Bowine C. Michel & Harry R. Büller & Gerrit-Anne Van Es & Diederick E. Grobbee & J. Dik F. Habbema
- 455-463 Whose Blood Is Safer?
by Eugene Litvak & Joanna E. Siegel & Stephen G. Pauker & Marc Lallemant & Harvey V. Fineberg & Milton C. Weinstein
- 464-471 Patient Preferences for Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction
by Eric J. Stanek & Judy W.M. Cheng & Patricia J. Peeples & Robert J. Simko & Sarah A. Spinler
- 472-482 Hepatitis B Immunization in a Low-incidence Province of Canada
by Tim Wiebe & Patricia Fergusson & Digby Horne & Marian Shanahan & Anna Macdonald & Lynn Heise & Leslie L. Roos
- 483-489 Estimating CE Ratios under Second-order Uncertainty
by Aaron A. Stinnett & A. David Paltiel
- 490-495 The Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Testing
by A. David Paltiel & Edward H. Kaplan
- 496-497 The Power and Pitfalls of Simplifying Assumptions
by Mark S. Roberts
- 497-498 MDM Policy Regarding Financial Support of Authors
by N/A
- 498-499 Do the Expected Utility Axioms Hide Flaws?
by Brian J. Cohen
- 499-500 Breast Cancer Screening at Ages 40-49
by Dewey Scheid & Robert Hamm & Frank Lawler
- 500-501 Book Reviews : Introduction to Technology Assessment for Radiologists : An Anthology of Readings and Materials for Self-Study Course. By Dennis G. Fryback, Rebecca C. Hutton, and William F. Lawrence. Milwaukee, WI: General Electric Medical Systems, 1995. Loose-leaf, two volumes in three-ring binders, includes disk with example spreadsheet files and ROC software. $120 institution, $95 student
by N/A
- 501-502 Book Reviews : Decision Making and Forecasting. By Kneale T. Marshall and Robert M. Oliver. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1995. 407 pp, hardbound, $61.25
by N/A
- 503-504 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
- 504-504 Announcements and Notices
by N/A
- 517-544 Abstracts
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July 1997, Volume 17, Issue 3
April 1997, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 123-125 Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 1—Getting Started
by Allan S. Detsky & Gary Naglie & Murray D. Krahn & David Naimark & Donald A. Redelmeier
- 126-135 Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 2—Building a Tree
by Allan S. Detsky & Gary Naglie & Murray D. Krahn & Donald A. Redelmeier & David Naimark
- 136-141 Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 3—Estimating Probabilities and Utilities
by Gary Naglie & Murray D. Krahn & David Naimark & Donald A. Redelmeier & Allan S. Detsky
- 142-151 Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 4-Analyzing the Model and Interpreting the Results
by Murray D. Krahn & Gary Naglie & David Naimark & Donald A. Redelmeier & Allan S. Detsky
- 152-159 Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 5—Working with Markov Processes
by David Naimark & Murray D. Krahn & Gary Naglie & Donald A. Redelmeier & Allan S. Detsky
- 160-170 Deciding Eligibility for Transplantation When a Donor Kidney Becomes Available
by John Hornberger & Jae-Hyeon Ahn
- 171-177 Failure of Three Decision Rules to Predict the Outcome of In-hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
by Mark H. Ebell & James A. Kruse & Mindy Smith & Jeanne Novak & Joelle Drader-Wilcox
- 178-185 Use of a Probabilistic Neural Network to Estimate the Risk of Mortality after Cardiac Surgery
by Richard K. Orr
- 186-192 The Effect of Data Sampling on the Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks in Medical Diagnosis
by Georgia D. Tourassi & Carey E. Floyd
- 193-198 A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Orphan Drug Cysteamine in the Treatment of Infantile Cystinosis
by Nelson Soohoo & Jerry A. Schneider & Robert M. Kaplan
- 199-207 The Influences of Patient Characteristics and Physician Experience on Case Recall
by Richard Durante & John B. McKinlay & Linda Kasten & Deborah A. Potter
- 208-216 An Experimental Test of a Theoretical Foundation for Rating-scale Valuations
by Han Bleichrodt & Magnus Johannesson
- 217-227 Is Experience a Good Teacher?
by Ira B. Wilson & Michael L. Green & Lee Goldman & Joel Tsevat & E. Francis Cook & Russell S. Phillips
- 228-230 Guidelines for Verbal Presentations of Medical Decision Analyses
by Donald A. Redelmeier & Allan S. Detsky & Murray D. Krahn & David Naimark & Gary Naglie
- 231-232 Organ Allocation and the Secretary Problem
by A. David Paltiel
- 233-233 When to Teach Bayesian Reasoning
by Eta S. Berner
- 234-237 Book and Software Reviews : Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conven tional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, By Michael Lerner, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994. 667 pp, paper, $17.95
by N/A
- 237-238 Book and Software Reviews : Dataâ„¢, Software for Decision Analysis. TreeAge Software, Inc., Williamstown, MA, $450 ($225 for academic institutions, Student Version $40 with a minimum of ten copies
by N/A
- 239-240 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
February 1997, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 1-9 Predicting Quality of Well-being Scores from the SF-36
by Dennis G. Fryback & William F. Lawrence & Patricia A. Martin & Ronald Klein & Barbara E.K. Klein
- 10-20 A Method to Elicit Utilities for Interpersonal Comparisons
by Ann M. Holmes
- 21-32 The Validity of QALYs
by Han Bleichrodt & Magnus Johannesson
- 33-41 The importance of Perspective in the Measurement of Quality-adjusted Life Years
by Jeff Richardson & Erik Nord
- 42-55 Can Preference Scores for Discrete States Be Used to Derive Preference Scores for an Entire Path of Events?
by Miriam Kuppermann & Stephen Shiboski & David Feeny & Eric P. Elkin & A. Eugene Washington
- 56-60 The Influence of Physician Explanations on Patient Preferences about Future Health-care States
by Dennis J. Mazur & David H. Hickam
- 61-70 Diagnostic Value of Signs and Symptoms Associated with Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease Seen in General Practice
by Henri E.J.H. Stoffers & Arnold D.M. Kester & Victor Kaiser & Paula E.L.M. Rinkens & J. André Knottnerus
- 71-79 Assessing Rater Performance without a "Gold Standard" Using Consensus Theory
by Susan C. Weller & N. Clay Mann
- 80-86 The impact of Computer-assisted Test Interpretation on Physician Decision Making
by David J. Brailer & Eugene Kroch & Mark V. Pauly
- 87-93 Determining Transition Probabilities from Mortality Rates and Autopsy Findings
by William C. Black & Robert F. Nease & H. Gilbert Welch
- 94-102 A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to ROC Analysis of Quantitative Diagnostic Tests
by Karim O. Hajian-Tilaki & James A. Hanley & Lawrence Joseph & Jean-Paul Collet
- 103-106 Test-indication Curves
by Joseph Bernstein
- 107-117 Good Technologies Gone Bad
by Charles E. Phelps
- 118-120 Book Reviews : Humane Medicine. By MILES LITTLE. New York: Cam bridge University Press, 1995, pp. xi + 195, $49.95 hard- bound, $16.95 paperback
by N/A
- 120-121 Book Reviews : The Health Care Ethics Consultant. Edited by FRAN- COISE E. BAYLIS. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1994, 209 pp., $44.50
by N/A
- 121-122 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
October 1996, Volume 16, Issue 4
August 1996, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 205-206 Perspectives on Healthy-years Equivalents
by Milton C. Weinstein & Joseph S. Pliskin
- 207-214 A Criticism of Healthy-years Equivalents
by Peter Wakker
- 215-216 HYEs: Do We Need Them and Can They Fulfil the Promise?
by N/A
- 216-216 HYEs: Rejoinder
by Peter Wakker
- 217-225 The Relationship between Descriptive and Valuational Quality-of-life Measures in Patients with Intermittent Claudication
by Johanna L. Bosch & Maria G.M. Hunink
- 226-233 Heterogeneity in the Relationship between the Standard-gamble Utility Measure and Health-status Dimensions
by Jan Roelf Bult & Johanna L. Bosch & Maria G.M. Hunink
- 234-241 Public Perceptions of the Importance of Prognosis in Allocating Transplantable Livers to Children
by Peter A. Ubel & George Loewenstein
- 242-247 An Empirical Note on Willingness to Pay and Starting-point Bias
by Nils-Olov Stålhammar
- 248-253 Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Angina Pectoris Attacks
by Bernt Kartman & Fredrik Andersson & Magnus Johannesson
- 254-261 Long-term Care Residents' Preferences for Health States on the Quality of Well-Being Scale
by Ron D. Hays & Albert L. Siu & Emmett Keeler & Grant N. Marshall & Robert M. Kaplan & Sandra Simmons & Daryl El Mouchi & John F. Schnelle
- 262-272 Using a Trade-off Technique to Assess Patients' Treatment Preferences for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
by Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas & J. Ivan Williams & Linda Levy & C.D. Naylor
- 273-280 The Psychology of Good Judgment
by Gerd Gigerenzer
- 281-287 How Convergence of Research Paradigms Can Improve Research on Diagnostic Judgment
by Kenneth R. Hammond
- 288-299 When Do the "Dollars" Make Sense?
by Bernie O'Brien & Amiram Gafni
- 300-302 Comorbidities and Utility for Angina Symptoms
by Robert F. Nease Jr. & Graham Nichol & Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas & C. David Naylor
- 302-303 On ROC Analysis
by Leonid V. Philosophov & X.H. Zhou
- 303-305 Book Reviews : Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical in novations. Edited by HOWARD S. FRAZIER and FREDERICK MOSTELLER. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univer sity Press, 1995, 311 pp, hardbound, $39.95
by N/A
- 305-306 Book Reviews : Managed Care: Principles and Practice—Health Care Management. Edited by HARVEY JOLT and MARTIN M. LEIGOVICI. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, 1995, 281 pp, $59.00
by N/A
- 306-307 Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
June 1996, Volume 16, Issue 2