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December 1983, Volume 3, Issue 4
- 477-487 Measurement of Values for States of Health with Linear Analog Scales
by Heather J. Sutherland & Virginia Dunn & Norman F. Boyd - 488-488 The Royal College of Physicians of London Computer Workshop
by N/A - 489-500 A Dialysis Need-Forecasting Model
by Joseph S. Pliskin & Eileen J. Tell - 501-509 Transferability of Medical Decision Support Systems Based on Bayesian Classification
by Ronald J. Zagoria & James A. Reggia - 510-510 The Society for Medical Decision Making Sixth Annual Meeting
by N/A - 511-512 Announcements From the Society for Medical Decision Making (Smdm)
by Ramon Boom
December 1983, Volume 3, Issue 3_suppl
- 340-341 Short Course on Medical Decision Making
by N/A - 342-394 Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SDMD)
by N/A
August 1983, Volume 3, Issue 3
- 275-277 The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by Raisa B. Deber - 278-278 The Royal College of Physicians of London Computer Workshop
by Robin Knill-Jones - 279-284 Analytic Methods and Medical Education
by Arthur S. Elstein - 285-297 Health Versus Money
by Mark S. Thompson - 298-298 Center for Health Policy Research and Education (CHRPRE) Duke University
by David M. Eddy - 299-310 Evaluation of Operational Failures in Clinical Decision Making
by R. Heather Palmer & Rose Strain & Janet K. Rothrock & Lee-Nah Hsu - 311-311 Kaiser Scholars Doctoral Program in Health Policy and Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Stan N. Finklestein - 312-312 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 313-338 What To Do When the Patient Outlives the Literature, or DEALE-ing with a Full Deck
by Saul V. Moroff & Stephen G. Pauker - 339-339 Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) October 3-5, 1983
by N/A - 340-341 Short Course on Medical Decision Making
by N/A - 342-394 Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) October 3-5, 1983
by N/A - 395-398 Recent Developments in the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
by Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski - 399-404 Evaluating Diagnostic Strategies for Pulmonary Embolism
by Bernard Hoop & Robert D. Brandstetter
June 1983, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 131-132 Editorial
by Lee B. Lusted - 133-154 Methodology for the Differential Diagnosis of a Complex Data Set
by Anila Wijesinha & Colin B. Begg & H. Harris Funkenstein & Barbara J. McNeil - 155-168 Derived Thresholds
by John M. Eisenberg & John C. Hershey - 169-175 Physicians' Misunderstanding of Normal Findings
by Jay J. J. Christensen-Szalanski & James B. Bushyhead - 176-176 The Royal College of Physicians of London Computer Workshop
by N/A - 177-195 A Mathematical Approach to Interpretation and Selection of Diagnostic Tests
by Peter Doubilet - 196-196 Kaiser Scholars Doctoral Program in Health Policy and Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by N/A - 197-214 Statistical Considerations in Medical Decision Models
by Robert D. Rifkin - 215-227 Comparison of Five Digital Scintigraphic Display Modes
by James E. Goin & David F. Preston & Joe H. Gallagher & Audrey V. Wegst - 228-228 Seventh Annual Symposium On Computer Applications in Medical Care (Scamc)
by N/A - 229-244 Use of the Hazard Rate to Schedule Follow-Up Exams Efficiently
by Andrew J. Dwyer & Judith M. S. Prewitt & J.G. Ecker & J. Plunkett - 245-245 Center for Health Policy Research and Education (Chpre) Duke University
by N/A - 246-246 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 247-269 Bilateral Pulmonary Infiltrates in an 11-Year-Old with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
by Deborah A. Zarin & Stephen G. Pauker
February 1983, Volume 3, Issue 1
- 1-2 Microcomputers in Medical Education
by Lee B. Lusted - 3-7 Microcomputer Aids to Medical Decision Making
by J. Robert Beck - 9-13 Using Microcomputers to Teach Sensitivity Analysis to Medical Students
by Kathleen Smyth-Staruch & Benjamin Littenberg - 14-14 The Royal College of Physicians of London Computer Workshop
by Robin Knill-Jones - 15-21 Interactive Microcomputer-Based Graphical Tools for Physician Decision Support Aids to Test Selection and Interpretation and Use of Bayes' Theorem
by Robert A. Greenes - 22-22 Kaiser Scholars Doctoral Program in Health Policy and Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Stan N. Finklestein - 23-28 Optimal Strategies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
by Peter Doubilet & Barbara J. McNeil & Milton C. Weinstein - 29-37 A Clinical Decision Analysis Program for the Apple Computer
by Marc D. Silverstein - 38-38 Seventh Annual Symposium On Computer Applications in Medical Care (Scamc)
by Gail E. Mutnik - 39-43 Decision Maker 3.0
by Joseph Lau & Jerome P. Kassirer & Stephen G. Pauker - 45-62 A Mathematical Model for Timing Repeated Medical Tests
by David M. Eddy - 63-68 Management of Suspected Temporal Arteritis
by Diane L. Elliot & William J. Watts & James B. Reuler - 69-79 A Chart Audit Study of the Referral of Obese Patients to Endocrinologists
by Michael M. Ravitch & David R. Rovner & Penny A. Jennett & Marilyn L. Rothert & Margaret M. Holmes & Gerald B. Holzman & Arthur S. Elstein - 80-80 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 81-109 Enterococcal Endocarditis and Penicillin Allergy
by Dennis A. Plante & Stephen G. Pauker - 111-113 Book Review : Choices in Health Care: Decision Making and Evaluation of Effectiveness Raisa B. Deber and Gail G. Thompson, editors. 168 pp, Department of Health Administration, University of Toronto, 1982. $5.00
by Raisa B. Deber & Gail G. Thomson - 115-117 Recent Developments in the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
by Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski
December 1982, Volume 2, Issue 4
- 397-399 On Decision Making in Common Medical Problems
by Lee B. Lusted - 400-400 A Thank You to Referees of Manuscripts
by N/A - 401-402 Medical Decision Making and Primary Care
by Anthony L. Komaroff & Theodore M. Pass - 403-414 A Study of the Implicit Criteria Used in Diagnosing Chest Pain
by David H. Hickam & Harold C. Sox JR & Keith I. Marton & Kelley M. Skeff & David Chin - 415-438 Diagnosis and Treatment of Dyspepsia
by Leighton Read & Theodore M. Pass & Anthony L. Komaroff - 439-448 Attitudes of Patients Toward Diagnostic Tests
by Keith I. Marton & Harold C. Sox JR & Jeff Alexander & Charles E. Duisenberg - 449-462 The Measurement of Patients' Values in Medicine
by H. Llewellyn-Thomas & H.J. Sutherland & R. Tibshirani & A. Ciampi & J.E. Till & N.F. Boyd - 463-469 Treating Sore Throats in the Emergency Room
by Robert M. Centor & John M. Witherspoon - 470-470 The Royal College of Physicians of London Computer Workshop
by Robin Knill-Jones - 471-482 Factors Affecting Laboratory Utilization in Clinical Practice
by Margaret M. Holmes & David R. Rovner & Arthur S. Elstein & Gerald B. Holzman & Marilyn L. Rothert & Michael M. Ravitch - 483-495 Measurement of Individual Preferences
by Antonio Ciampi & Michel Silberfeld & James E. Till - 496-496 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 497-519 Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome in a 53-Year-Old Woman
by Joseph Lau & Andrew S. Levey & Jerome P. Kassirer & Stephen G. Pauker - 520-520 Microcomputer Aids to Medical Decision Making
by J. Robert Beck - 521-523 Book Reviews : What Are My Chances? Ben Eiseman, M.D. 402 pp. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1980. $14.95
by Robert W. Wood - 524-526 Book Reviews : Medical Choices, Medical Chances Harold Bursztajn, Richard I. Feinbloom, Robert M. Hamm, and Archie Brodsky. 456 pp. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. $14.95
by Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski - 526-527 Book Reviews : Clinical Decisions and Laboratory Use Donald P. Connelly, Ellis S. Benson, M. Desmond Burke, and Douglas Fenderson, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982
by J. Robert Beck - 528-528 The Society for Medical Decision Making Fifth Annual Meeting
by Raisa B. Deber & Ruth M. McDevitt - 529-530 Announcements From the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
by N/A - 531-531 Prizes for Student Research in Medical Decision Making Awarded At the Fourth Annual Smdm Meeting
by N/A - 531-532 Center for Health Policy Research and Education (CHPRE) Duke University
by David M. Eddy - 533-533 Fourth International Meeting On Clinical Laboratory Organization and Management
by N/A - 533-533 Fourth World Conference On Medical Informatics
by N/A - 534-534 Two Related Special Summer Programs in the Area of Health Management
by N/A
August 1982, Volume 2, Issue 3
- 257-260 The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by Albert G. Mulley - 261-274 Treatment Choice in Gastric Carcinoma
by Peter Doubilet & Barbara J. McNeil - 275-283 Two Studies of Good Clinical Judgment
by Jay J. J. Christensen-Szalanski & Paula H. Diehr & James B. Bushyhead & Robert W. Wood - 284-284 National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Productivity in Health
by Victor R. Fuchs - 285-297 Relations Between Effectiveness of a Diagnostic Test, Prevalence of the Disease, and Percentages of Uninterpretable Results
by Thierry Poynard & Jean-Claude Chaput & Jean-Pierre Etienne - 299-309 Attitudes Toward Quality of Survival
by Heather J. Sutherland & Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas & Norman F. Boyd & James E. Till - 311-321 Diagnostic Imaging System Evaluation
by James E. Goin & Arthur A. DeSmet - 322-322 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 323-339 Abdominal Pain, Atherosclerosis, and Atrial Fibrillation
by Rene E. Cormier & Barbara A. Chase & Gregory S. Peterson & Stephen G. Pauker - 340-340 The Society for Medical Decision Making Fourth Annual Meeting
by N/A - 341-341 Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
by N/A - 342-343 Short Course on Medical Decision Making
by J. Leighton Read - 344-375 Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
by N/A - 377-377 Book Review : Principles of Economic Appraisal in Health Care M.F. Drummond. 132 pp, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. $12.95 Studies in Economic Appraisal in Health Care M.F. Drummond. 216 pp, New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. $32.50
by Kevin Patrick - 378-378 Sixth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care
by N/A - 378-378 Fourth World Conference on Medical Informatics
by N/A - 379-382 Recent Developments in the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making
by Jay J.J. Christensen-Szalanski - 384-384 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom - 385-387 Funding for Research in Medical Decision Making
by John R. Clarke & Jeffrey Krischer & James A. Reggia & John C. Peirce & Harvey V. Fineberg & Arthur S. Elstein & John Eisenberg
June 1982, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 129-131 Management of Needle-Stick Exposures
by Jeffrey P. Koplan & Mark A. Kane - 132-132 National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Productivity in Health
by Victor R. Fuchs - 133-137 Cost Analysis of a Needle Stick Protocol
by James B. Reuler & Joyce Atlee Campbell - 138-138 Two Related Special Summer Programs in the Area of Health Management
by N/A - 139-145 Diagnostic Workup Bias in the Evaluation of a Test
by David F. Ransohoff & W. Angus Muir - 147-160 Evaluation for Colon Cancer in Patients with Occult Fecal Blood Loss While Taking Aspirin
by Peter Doubilet & Mark Donowitz & Stephen G. Pauker - 161-165 The Clinical Utility of Utility Assessment
by Harold Bursztajn & Robert M. Hamm - 166-166 Sixth Annual Symposium On Computer Applications in Medical Care
by N/A - 167-177 A Cross-National Study of Drug Treatment Decisions in Psychiatry
by Hans-Ulrich Fisch & John S. Gillis & Romano Daguet - 179-195 Physicians' and Patients' Judgments of Compliance with a Hypertensive Regimen
by Marilyn L. Rothert - 197-208 Constancy of Subjective Assessments and the Stability of Treatment Preferences in Team Decision Making
by Jeffrey P. Krischer & Virginia L. Dixon - 209-216 Education
by Arthur S. Elstein & David R. Rovner & Marilyn L. Rothert - 217-223 Education
by Frank A. Hale & Eugene C. Nelson & Dale S. Gephart & Kevin C. Stone - 224-224 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 225-244 Recurrent Endocarditis in a Patient with a Permanent Transvenous Pacemaker
by Barbara A. Chase & Stephen G. Pauker - 245-247 Book Review : Screening for Cancer: Theory, Analysis, and Design David M. Eddy. 308 pp, illustrated, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980. $29.95
by Michael H. Rothkopf - 248-248 Corrections
by N/A - 249-250 Recurrent Deep Venous Thrombosis in Pregnancy Karen Klein, M.D., and Stephen G. Pauker, M.D. (Med Decis Making 1:181-202, 1981)
by Henrik R. Wulff - 250-251 Response
by Stephen G. Pauker - 252-252 The Society for Medical Decision Making Fourth Annual Meeting
by N/A - 254-254 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom
February 1982, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 1-5 Decision Making as Educational Subject Matter
by Arthur S. Elstein - 6-6 A Word from the Publisher
by Klaus Peters - 7-11 Harder Data for the Soft Science of Quality Assurance
by John M. Eisenberg & Elliot J. Sussman - 13-21 Differential Effects of Experience on House Officers' Admission Diagnoses for Patients with Possible Myocardial Infarction
by Michael W. Pozen & Debra J. Lerner & Ralph B. D'Agostino & Albert J. Belanger & Sandra A. Buckley - 22-22 A Logo for the Editor
by Lee B. Lusted - 23-31 The Use of an ROC Curve to Express Quality of Care Results
by Sheldon Greenfield & Shan Cretin & Linda G. Worthman & Frederick Dorey - 33-45 Health Economic Analysis of the Swedish Neonatal Metabolic Screening Programme
by Jan Alm & Agne Larsson & Urban Rosenqvist - 47-69 Reliability, Decision Rules, and the Value of Repeated Tests
by Peter Politser - 70-70 Two Related Special Summer Programs in the Area of Health Management
by N/A - 71-77 Public Health Policy Toward Atypical Measles Syndrome in the United States
by Alan R. Hinman & Jeffrey P. Koplan - 79-95 Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Clinical Practice
by Alan B. Cohen & Henry Klapholz & Mark S. Thompson - 96-96 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 97-115 Elective Surgery in the Setting of Comorbid Anesthesia Risk
by J. Robert Beck & Stephen G. Sackel & Stephen G. Pauker - 116-116 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Education
by Carmi Z. Margolis - 118-118 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom - 119-122 Priority of Issues in Decision Making
by John R. Clarke & Chairman Jeffrey Krischer & James A. Reggia & John C. Peirce & Harvey V. Fineberg & Arthur S. Elstein & John Eisenberg - 124-125 Prizes for Student Research in Medical Decision Making
by Michael J. Gordon & David F. Ransohoff & Sankey V. Williams
December 1981, Volume 1, Issue 4
- 305-306 On Tutorials and the Third Annual SMDM Meeting
by Lee B. Lusted - 307-307 A Thank You to Referees of Manuscripts
by Lee B. Lusted - 309-330 Economic Assessments of Medical Practices and Technologies
by Milton C. Weinstein - 331-344 The Lumbar Puncture
by Keith I. Marton & Michael I. Vender - 345-359 A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Screening for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in India
by Barbara J. McNeil & Robert A. Dudley & Bernard Hoop & Charles Metz & Mark Thompson & S. James Adelstein - 361-389 Decision Analysis and Clinical Judgment
by Peter Politser - 390-390 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center
by Stephen G. Pauker - 391-414 A 65-Year-Old Chinese Woman with Lymphadenopathy and Progressive Pulmonary Infiltrates
by J. Robert Beck & Dennis A. Plante & Stephen G. Pauker - 416-474 Abstracts From the Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
by Randall D. Cebul - 476-476 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom
August 1981, Volume 1, Issue 3
- 213-213 International Correspondence
by Lee B. Lusted - 215-224 The Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain in Ambulatory Male Patients
by John H. Wasson & Harold C. Sox JR & Carol H. Sox - 225-237 The Differential Diagnosis of Obstructive Jaundice
by Ramón A. Boom & Daniel Gil & Roberto Maass & Guillermo Manrique - 239-246 The Diagnosis of Strep Throat in Adults in the Emergency Room
by Robert M.. Centor & John M. Witherspoon & Harry P. Dalton & Charles E. Brody & Kurt Link - 247-263 Operability of Nuclear Instruments for Medical Use in Developing Countries
by Bernard Hoop & Charles E. Metz - 265-275 Deciding Whether the Conclusions of Studies are Justified: A Review
by Daniel A. Albert - 277-283 How to Make the Best Decision
by Henrik R. Wulff - 284-284 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center Hospital
by Stephen G. Pauker - 285-301 Anticoagulation and Atrial Fibrillation in the Bradycardia- Tachycardia Syndrome
by J. Robert Beck & Stephen G. Pauker - 304-304 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom
June 1981, Volume 1, Issue 2
- 101-102 Letters to the Editor
by Lee B. Lusted - 103-114 The Effect of Private Attitudes on Public Policy
by Stephen G. Pauker & Susan P. Pauker & Barbara J. McNeil - 115-122 Feedback and the Illusion of Validity in a Medical Clinic
by James B. Bushyhead & Jay J. J. Christensen-Szalanski - 125-144 Diagnostic Strategies in the Management of Unexplained Visual Loss
by Paulo C. Acosta & Jonathan D. Trobe & Jonathan J. Shuster & Jeffrey P. Krischer - 145-164 Physician and Medical Student Bias in Evaluating Diagnostic Information
by Thomas S. Wallsten - 165-179 Decision-Analytic Determination of Study Size
by Mark S. Thompson - 180-180 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center Hospital
by Stephen G. Pauker - 181-202 Recurrent Deep Venous Thrombosis in Pregnancy
by Karen Klein & Stephen G. Pauker - 203-204 Book Reviews : Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics Ronald Munson. 512 pp, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1979. $17.95
by Daniel A. Albert - 204-205 Book Reviews : Cholesterol, Children and Heart Disease: An Analysis of Alternatives Donald M. Berwick, Shan Cretin, Emmett B. Keeler, 400 pp, illustrated, New York: Oxford Press, 1980. $32.95
by Pamela A. Sytkowski & Michael W. Pozen - 207-209 Letter From Leeds
by F.T. De Dombal - 212-212 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Ramón Boom
February 1981, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial
by Eugene L. Saenger - 4-6 Editorial
by Harvey V. Fineberg - 7-9 Editorial
by Lee B. Lusted - 10-28 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
by Joseph S. Pliskin & William B. Stason & Milton C. Weinstein & Robert A. Johnson & Peter F. Cohn & M. Terry McEnany & Peter Braun - 29-39 Assessment of Patients' Preferences for Therapeutic Outcomes
by Stephen A. Eraker & Harold C. Sox - 40-43 A Theoretical Assessment of the Value of the PTT as a Preoperative Screening Test in Adults
by John R. Clarke & John M. Eisenberg - 44-58 Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for Hypo- and Hyperthyroidism in India
by Mark S. Thompson & Barbara J. McNeil & R.D. Ganatra & P. Reed Larsen & S. James Adelstein - 59-69 Geographical Variation in Disease Presentation
by F.T. de Dombal & J.R. Staniland & Susan E. Clamp - 70-73 Educational Programs in Medical Decision Making
by Arthur S. Elstein - 74-75 Clinical Decision Making Rounds At the New England Medical Center Hospital
by Stephen G. Pauker - 75-93 Whether or not to Administer Amphotericin to an Immunosuppressed Patient with Hematologic Malignancy and Undiagnosed Fevert
by Jonathan E. Gottlieb & Stephen G. Pauker - 94-97 Book Review : Clinical Decision Analysis M.C. Weinstein, H.V. Fineberg, and A.S. Elstein, H.S. Frazier, D. Neuhauser, R.R. Neutra, B.J. McNeil. 351 pp, illustrated, Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1980. $25.00
by Dennis G. Fryback - 99-100 A Medical Decision Making "List"
by Randall D. Cebul & Ramón Boom