Medical Decision Making

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Volume 26, issue 6, 2006

Highlights of This Issue pp. 561-564

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Decision Curve Analysis: A Novel Method for Evaluating Prediction Models pp. 565-574

Andrew J. Vickers and Elena B. Elkin

Failure to Adopt Beneficial Therapies Caused by Bias in Medical Evidence Evaluation pp. 575-582

Scott K. Aberegg, Hal Arkes and Peter B. Terry

Teaching Medical Decision Modeling: A Qualitative Description of Student Errors and Curriculum Responses pp. 583-588

Kenneth J. Smith, Amber E. Barnato and Mark S. Roberts

Impact of an Educational Video on Patient Decision Making in Early Breast Cancer Treatment pp. 589-598

Edwin G. Wilkins, Julie C. Lowery, Laurel A. Copeland, Sherry L. Goldfarb, Patricia A. Wren and Nancy K. Janz

Physician Practice Patterns: Chest X-Ray Ordering for the Evaluation of Acute Cough Illness in Adults pp. 599-605

Eva Aagaard, Judy Maselli and Ralph Gonzales

The Impact of Unstable Angina Guidelines in the Triage of Emergency Department Patients with Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome pp. 606-616

David A. Katz, Tom P. Aufderheide, Mark Bogner, Peter R. Rahko, Roger L. Brown, Lisa M. Brown, Matthew E. Prekker and Harry P. Selker

FluSurge—A Tool to Estimate Demand for Hospital Services during the Next Pandemic Influenza pp. 617-623

Xinzhi Zhang, Martin I. Meltzer and Pascale M. Wortley

Misleading Measurements: Modeling the Effects of Blood Pressure Misclassification in a United States Population pp. 624-632

Tom Marshall

Commentary on Mobley and Others: Importance of Assumptions About VTE Mortality in Modeling the Cost-effectiveness of Osteoporosis Therapies pp. 633-635

Eric S. Meadows, John Stock and Joseph A. Johnston

Response to Meadows and Others pp. 636-637

Lee R. Mobley, Thomas Hoerger and John Wittenborn

Index to Medical Decision Making Volume 26 pp. 638-643

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Volume 26, issue 5, 2006

Bayesian Statistics pp. 429-430

Donald A. Berry

Posterior Progress pp. 431-433

Clyde B. Schechter

Impact of Model, Methodological, and Parameter Uncertainty in the Economic Analysis of Vaccination Programs pp. 434-446

M. Brisson and W. J. Edmunds

The Impact of Unmeasured Clinical Variables on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards: A Monte Carlo Study pp. 447-466

Peter C. Austin

Collective Equipoise, Disappointment, and the Therapeutic Misconception: On the Consequences of Selection for Clinical Research pp. 467-479

Margaret M. Byrne and Peter Thompson

An Iterative Bayesian Approach to Health Technology Assessment: Application to a Policy of Preoperative Optimization for Patients Undergoing Major Elective Surgery pp. 480-496

Elisabeth Fenwick, Steve Palmer, Karl Claxton, Mark Sculpher, Keith Abrams and Alex Sutton

Estimation of Mortality Rates for Disease Simulation Models Using Bayesian Evidence Synthesis pp. 497-511

Pamela M. McMahon, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Milton C. Weinstein, Karen M. Kuntz, Jane C. Weeks and G. Scott Gazelle

Large-Sample Bayesian Posterior Distributions for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis pp. 512-534

Gordon B. Hazen and Min Huang

A Simulation Model to Estimate the Cost and Effectiveness of Alternative Dialysis Initiation Strategies pp. 535-549

Chris P. Lee, Glenn M. Chertow and Stefanos A. Zenios

Increasing the Efficiency of Monte Carlo Cohort Simulations with Variance Reduction Techniques pp. 550-553

Steven M. Shechter, Andrew J. Schaefer, R. Scott Braithwaite and Mark S. Roberts

Information for Authors pp. 554-556

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2006

Web-Based Resources for Modelers from Medical Decision Making pp. 300-300

Mark Helfand

Highlights of This Issue pp. 301-303

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The Transient Nature of Utilities and Health Preferences pp. 304-306

Olga Kostopoulou

As Good As It Gets but Good Enough for Which Applications? pp. 307-309

David Feeny

National Health Preference Data: A Useful Resource for Health Services Research pp. 310-312

Dennis A. Revicki

Context Changes Choices: A Prospective Study of the Effects of Hospitalization on Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences pp. 313-322

Peter H. Ditto, Jill A. Jacobson, William D. Smucker, Joseph H. Danks and Angela Fagerlin

Being There Is Important, but Getting There Matters Too: The Role of Path in the Valuation Process pp. 323-337

Julie H. Goldberg

Exploring the Reference Point in Prospect Theory: Gambles for Length of Life pp. 338-346

Sylvie M. C. van Osch, Wilbert B. van den Hout and Anne M. Stiggelbout

Process Utility in Breast Biopsy pp. 347-359

J. Shannon Swan, William F. Lawrence and Jessica Roy

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Decision Aid for Women at Increased Risk of Ovarian Cancer pp. 360-372

K. Tiller, B. Meiser, C. Gaff, J. Kirk, T. Dudding, K.-A. Phillips, M. Friedlander and K. Tucker

Impact of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework on the Agreement and the Difference between Patients' and Physicians' Decisional Conflict pp. 373-390

France Légaré, Annette M. O'Connor, Ian D. Graham, Georges A. Wells and Stéphane Tremblay

Report of Nationally Representative Values for the Noninstitutionalized US Adult Population for 7 Health-Related Quality-of-Life Scores pp. 391-400

Janel Hanmer, William F. Lawrence, John P. Anderson, Robert M. Kaplan and Dennis G. Fryback

Mapping the EQ-5D Index from the SF-12: US General Population Preferences in a Nationally Representative Sample pp. 401-409

Patrick W. Sullivan and Vahram Ghushchyan

Preference-Based EQ-5D Index Scores for Chronic Conditions in the United States pp. 410-420

Patrick W. Sullivan and Vahram Ghushchyan

Volume 26, issue 3, 2006

Highlights of This Issue pp. 217-219

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Using Health State Classification Systems for Utility Elicitation in the Elderly pp. 220-222

Dan Greenberg and Joseph S. Pliskin

Health State Classification Systems: How Comparable Are Our Cost-Effectiveness Ratios? pp. 223-225

Anne M. Stiggelbout

Implications of Cancer Staging Uncertainties in Radiation Therapy Decisions pp. 226-238

Robert C. Lee, Edidiong Ekaette, Karie-Lynn Kelly, Peter Craighead, Chris Newcomb and Peter Dunscombe

Validity of Criteria Used to Evaluate Fingerstick Devices That Assess International Normalized Ratio pp. 239-246

Kenneth M. Shermock, Jason T. Connor, Nicole T. Smith, Jodie M. Fink and Lee Bragg

Assessing Health State Utilities in Elderly Patients at Cardiovascular Risk pp. 247-254

Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, Joshua S. Benner, Robert J. Glynn, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Philip S. Wang, M. Alan Brookhart, Raisa Levin, Joseph D. Jackson and Jerry Avorn

Judgment Analysis of Surgeons’ Prioritization of Patients for Elective General Surgery pp. 255-264

Andrew D. MacCormick and Bryan R. Parry

Collecting Direct Non-Health Care and Time Cost Data: Application to Screening and Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer pp. 265-272

Scott B. Cantor, Lawrence B. Levy, Marylou Cárdenas-Turanzas, Karen Basen-Engquist, Tao Le, J. Robert Beck and Michele Follen

Drug Benefit Decisions among Older Adults: A Policy-Capturing Analysis pp. 273-281

Richard R. Cline and Kiran Gupta

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Screening for Celiac Disease in the Adult Population pp. 282-293

Raanan Shamir, Olle Hernell and Moshe Leshno

Volume 26, issue 2, 2006

Highlights of this Issue pp. 101-105

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How Successful Are We at Protecting Preferences? Consent, Informed Consent, Advance Directives, and Substituted Judgment pp. 106-109

Dennis J. Mazur

Patient-Physician Fit: An Idea Whose Time Has Come pp. 110-111

Edward Krupat

Predictors of Patient Treatment Preferences and Spouse Substituted Judgments: The Case of Dialysis Continuation pp. 112-121

Rachel A. Pruchno, Edward P. Lemay, Lucy Feild and Norman G. Levinsky

Patient-Physician Fit: An Exploratory Study of a Multidimensional Instrument pp. 122-133

Alan Schwartz, Memoona Hasnain, Arnold R. Eiser, Elizabeth Lincoln and Arthur S. Elstein

Apparent and Internal Validity of a Monte Carlo–Markov Model for Cardiovascular Disease in a Cohort Follow-up Study pp. 134-144

Rogier L. Nijhuis, Theo Stijnen, Anna Peeters, Jacqueline C.M. Witteman, Albert Hofman and M. G. Myriam Hunink

Toward Targeted Hypertension Screening Guidelines pp. 145-153

Stef van Buuren, Hendriek C. Boshuizen and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Supervision of Students May Protect Academic Physicians from Cognitive Bias: A Study of Decision Making and Multiple Treatment Alternatives in Medicine pp. 154-161

Todd Eric Roswarski and Michael D. Murray

Engineering Risk Analysis of a Hospital Oxygen Supply System pp. 162-172

Léa A. Deleris, Gee Liek Yeo, Adam Seiver and M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

Inconsistencies in TTO and VAS Values for EQ-5D Health States pp. 173-181

Leida M. Lamers, Peep F. M. Stalmeier, Paul F. M. Krabbe and Jan J. V. Busschbach

The Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies to Reduce Mortality from an Intentional Release of Aerosolized Anthrax Spores pp. 182-193

R. Scott Braithwaite, Douglas Fridsma and Mark S. Roberts

Cost-Effectiveness of Osteoporosis Screening and Treatment with Hormone Replacement Therapy, Raloxifene, or Alendronate pp. 194-206

Lee R. Mobley, Thomas J. Hoerger, John S. Wittenborn, Deborah A. Galuska and Jaya K. Rao

Information for Authors pp. 207-209

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Volume 26, issue 1, 2006

Abstracts pp. E1-E79

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Highlights of this Issue pp. 5-5

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An Alternative Approach to Reducing the Costs of Patient Care? A Controlled Trial of the Multi-Disciplinary Doctor-Nurse Practitioner (MDNP) Model pp. 9-17

Susan L. Ettner, Jenny Kotlerman, Abdelmonem Afifi, Sondra Vazirani, Ron D. Hays, Martin Shapiro and Marie Cowan

Estimating the Association between SF-12 Responses and EQ-5D Utility Values by Response Mapping pp. 18-29

Alastair Gray, Oliver Rivero-Arias and Philip M. Clarke

Valuation Structures of Health States Revealed with Singular Value Decomposition pp. 30-37

Paul F. M. Krabbe

Reassessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate (MCC) Vaccines Using a Transmission Dynamic Model pp. 38-47

Caroline L. Trotter and W. John Edmunds

Physician Evaluation after Medical Errors: Does Having a Computer Decision Aid Help or Hurt in Hindsight? pp. 48-56

Mark V. Pezzo and Stephanie P. Pezzo

Cross-sectional Analysis of Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Going to Meet the Inconsistencies pp. 57-62

Jacobus T. van Wyk, Marc A. M. van Wijk, Peter W. Moorman and Johan van der Lei

Determining Indications for Care Common to Competing Guidelines by Using Classification Tree Analysis: Application to the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Medical Inpatients pp. 63-75

Jean-Luc Bosson and Jose Labarere

Primary Care Physician Specialty Referral Decision Making: Patient, Physician, and Health Care System Determinants pp. 76-85

Christopher B. Forrest, Paul A. Nutting, Sarah von Schrader, Charles Rohde and Barbara Starfield

Call for Nominations for SMDM Awards pp. 86-87

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Information for Authors pp. 88-90

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Abstract Author Index pp. 91-96

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