Medical Decision Making

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Volume 22, issue 6, 2002

Highlights of This Issue pp. 461-463

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iMPACT3: Internet-Based Development and Administration of Utility Elicitation Protocols pp. 464-474

L. A. Lenert, A. Sturley and M. E. Watson

A Meta-Analysis of Utility Estimates for HIV/AIDS pp. 475-481

Tammy O. Tengs and Ting H. Lin

Costs and Benefits of Enforcing Housing Policies to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning pp. 482-492

Mary Jean Brown

Willingness to Pay for What? A Note on Alternative Definitions of Health Care Program Benefits for Contingent Valuation Studies pp. 493-497

Gillian R. Currie, Cam Donaldson, Bernie J. O’Brien, Greg L. Stoddart, George W. Torrance and Michael F. Drummond

Antibiotic Prescribing Decisions of Generalists and Infectious Disease Specialists: Thresholds for Adopting New Drug Therapies pp. 498-505

Joshua P. Metlay, Judy A. Shea and David A. Asch

The Relationship between Risk Attitude and Treatment Choice in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis pp. 506-513

Lisa A. Prosser, Karen M. Kuntz, Amit Bar-Or and Milton C. Weinstein

Information in Medical Decision Making: How Consistent Is Our Management? pp. 514-521

Daniel P. Lorence, Amanda Spink and Robert Jameson

HIV/AIDS, Utilities, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Stepping toward the Future pp. 522-525

William C. Holmes

Law and Ethics pp. 526-526

Dennis J. Mazur

Law and Ethics pp. 527-527

Dennis J. Mazur

Book Review: The Economic Evolution of American Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care pp. 528-529

Dennis Hanseman

Book Review: The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook: Case Studies, Commentaries and Activities pp. 529-530

Timothy F. Murphy

Volume 22, issue 5, 2002

Highlights of This Issue pp. 383-385

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Survival Impact of Tamoxifen Use for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction: Projections from a Patient-Specific Markov Model pp. 386-393

Nananda F. Col, Robert J. Goldberg, Richard K. Orr, John K. Erban, Jennifer M. Fortin and Rowan T. Chlebowski

Does Choosing a Treatment Depend on Making a Diagnosis? US and French Physicians’ Decision Making about Acute Otitis Media pp. 394-402

Paul Clay Sorum, Thomas R. Stewart, Etienne Mullet, Claudia González-Vallejo, Junseop Shim, Gérard Chasseigne, María Teresa Muñoz Sastre and Bernard Grenier

Comparison of Preference-Based Utilities of the Short-Form 36 Health Survey and Health Utilities Index before and after Treatment of Patients with Intermittent Claudication pp. 403-409

Johanna L. Bosch, Elkan F. Halpern and G. Scott Gazelle

Your Money or Your Health: Time Preferences and Trading Money for Health pp. 410-416

Gretchen B. Chapman

Health Economic Evaluations: The Special Case of End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment pp. 417-430

Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, Milton C. Weinstein, Murray A. Mittleman, Robert J. Glynn and Joseph S. Pliskin

What Accounts for the Appeal of Complementary/Alternative Medicine, and What Makes Complementary/Alternative Medicine “Alternative†? pp. 431-450

Leora C. Swartzman, Richard A. Harshman, Jacquelyn Burkell and Margaret E. Lundy

The Use of Factor Analysis Techniques pp. 451-452

François Sainfort

Volume 22, issue 4, 2002

Highlights of This Issue pp. 287-289

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Probabilistic Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness Models: Choosing between Treatment Strategies for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease pp. 290-308

Andrew H. Briggs, Ron Goeree, Gord Blackhouse and Bernie J. O’Brien

Patient Decision Making: Use of and Adherence to Telephone-Based Nurse Triage Recommendations pp. 309-317

Joan M. O’Connell, Winfield Towles, Ming Yin and C. Lucy Malakar

The Effects of Proficiency and Bias on Residents’ Interpretation of the Microscopic Urinalysis pp. 318-325

Stephen D. Flach, Gay J. Canaris, Thomas G. Tape, Kathryn M. Huntley and Robert S. Wigton

Primary Prevention Drug Therapy: Can It Meet Patients’ Requirements for Reduced Risk? pp. 326-339

Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, J. Michael Paterson, Judy A. Carter, Antoni Basinski, Martin G. Myers, Gordon D. Hardacre, Earl V. Dunn, Ralph B. D’Agostino, Philip A. Wolf and C. David Naylor

Estimating Utility Values for Health States of Type 2 Diabetic Patients Using the EQ-5D (UKPDS 62) pp. 340-349

Philip Clarke, Alastair Gray and Rury Holman

How Robust Is the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 Utility Function? pp. 350-358

Qinan Wang, William Furlong, David Feeny, George Torrance and Ronald Barr

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of a Multiparameter Decision Model: Consistency of Evidence and the Accurate Assessment of Uncertainty pp. 359-371

A. E. Ades and S. Cliffe

Lawand Ethics pp. 372-372

Dennis J. Mazur

In Appreciation: John Eisenberg of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality pp. 373-374

Nancy Foster, Carolyn Clancy and Gregg Meyer

Erratum pp. 375-375

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Volume 22, issue 3, 2002

Highlights of This Issue pp. 195-197

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The Benefit of Negative Tests in Non-Ulcer Dyspepsia pp. 199-207

Amnon Sonnenberg and Nimish Vakil

Reduction Mammaplasty: Defining Medical Necessity pp. 208-217

Carolyn L. Kerrigan, E. Dale Collins, H. Myra Kim, Paul L. Schnur, Edwin Wilkins, Bruce Cunningham and Julie Lowery

Assessing the Sensitivity of Decision-Analytic Results to Unobserved Markers of Risk: Defining the Effects of Heterogeneity Bias pp. 218-227

Karen M. Kuntz and Sue J. Goldie

Determining Sensitivity of Mammography from Screening Data, Cancer Incidence, and Receiver-Operating Characteristic Curve Parameters pp. 228-237

John M. Boone, Karen K. Lindfors and J. Anthony Seibert

Visual Illusions Created by Survival Curves and the Need to Avoid Potential Misinterpretation pp. 238-244

Ernest W. Lau and G. A. Ng

Using Elicitation Techniques to Estimate the Value of Ambulatory Treatments for Major Depression pp. 245-261

Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

The Role of Physicians’ Recommendations in Medical Treatment Decisions pp. 262-271

Andrea D. Gurmankin, Jonathan Baron, John C. Hershey and Peter A. Ubel

“You’re Perfect for the Procedure! Why Don’t You Want It?†Elderly Arthritis Patients’ Unwillingness to Consider Total Joint Arthroplasty Surgery: A Qualitative Study pp. 272-278

Pamela L. Hudak, Jocalyn P. Clark, Gillian A. Hawker, Peter C. Coyte, Nizar N. Mahomed, Hans J. Kreder and James G. Wright

Law and Ethics pp. 279-280

Dennis J. Mazur

Volume 22, issue 2, 2002

Highlights of This Issue pp. 95-98

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Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease: Prognostic Value of Signs, Symptoms, and the Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index pp. 99-107

Jurenne D. Hooi, Henri E.J.H. Stoffers, Arnold D. M. Kester, Jan W. van Ree and J. André Knottnerus

Testing for Factor V Leiden in Patients with Pulmonary or Venous Thromboembolism: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 108-124

Mark H. Eckman, Sushil K. Singh, John K. Erban and Grace Kao

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Patient Decision Aid for Colorectal Cancer Screening pp. 125-139

James G. Dolan and Susan Frisina

Judgment Analysis of Prioritization Decisions within a Dialysis Program in One United Kingdom Region pp. 140-151

Frank Kee, Chris C. Patterson, Ann E. Wilson, Janice M. McConnell, Seana M. Wheeler and John D. Watson

Bayesian Extensions of the Tobit Model for Analyzing Measures of Health Status pp. 152-162

Peter C. Austin

A Comparison of Bayesian Methods for Profiling Hospital Performance pp. 163-172

Peter C. Austin

A Note on the Estimation of Confidence Intervals for Cost-Effectiveness When Costs and Effects Are Censored pp. 173-177

Gordon Blackhouse, Andrew H. Briggs and Bernie J. O’Brien

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Viewed through the Eyes of George Torrance pp. 178-181

George W. Torrance

Presidential Address: Proactive Decision Making pp. 182-186

M. G. Myriam Hunink

Law and Ethics pp. 187-188

Dennis J. Mazur

Announcements pp. 189-189

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Volume 22, issue 1_suppl, 2002

Analytic Tools for Public Health Decision Making pp. 3-10

Douglas K. Owens

The Value of Prevention: Experiences of a Public Health Agency pp. 11-16

Phaedra S. Corso, Stephen B. Thacker and Jeffrey P. Koplan

Modeling the Public Health Response to Bioterrorism: Using Discrete Event Simulation to Design Antibiotic Distribution Centers pp. 17-25

Nathaniel Hupert, Alvin I. Mushlin and Mark A. Callahan

Cost-Effectiveness of Pharmacological Interventions for Smoking Cessation: A Literature Review and a Decision Analytic Analysis pp. 26-37

Fujian Song, James Raftery, Paul Aveyard, Chris Hyde, Pelham Barton and Nerys Woolacott

The Impact of Expected HIV Transmission Rates on the Effectiveness and Cost of Ruling Out HIV Infection in Infants pp. 38-44

Joseph M. Mrus, Michael S. Yi, Mark H. Eckman and Joel Tsevat

Cost-Effectiveness of the Pneumococcal Vaccine in Healthy Younger Adults pp. 45-57

Patricia Vold Pepper and Douglas K. Owens

Cost-Benefit Analysis of a New HEDIS Performance Measure for Pneumococcal Vaccination pp. 58-66

Faruque Ahmed, Elamin E. Elbasha, Betsy L. Thompson, Jeffrey R. Harris and Vishnu-Priya Sneller

Variation in Average Costs among Federally Sponsored State-Organized Cancer Detection Programs: Economies of Scale? pp. 67-79

Edward C. Mansley, Diane O. Duñet, Daniel S. May, Sajal K. Chattopadhyay and Matthew T. Mckenna

Optimal Allocation of Resources across Four Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes pp. 80-91

Stephanie R. Earnshaw, Anke Richter, Stephen W. Sorensen, Thomas J. Hoerger, Katherine A. Hicks, Michael Engelgau, Ted Thompson, K. M. Venkat Narayan, David F. Williamson, Edward Gregg and Ping Zhang

Assessing Preferences for Prevention versus Treatment Using Willingness to Pay pp. 92-101

Phaedra S. Corso, James Hammitt, John D. Graham, Richard C. Dicker and Sue J. Goldie

Measurement of Health Preferences among Patients with Tuberculous Infection and Disease pp. 102-114

Marie-Josée Dion, Pierre Tousignant, Jean Bourbeau, Dick Menzies and Kevin Schwartzman

Volume 22, issue 1, 2002

A Simulation Model of Policies Directed at Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence pp. 6-17

David T. Levy and Karen Friend

A Real-Time Classification System of Thalassemic Pathologies Based on Artificial Neural Networks pp. 18-26

S. R. Amendolia, A. Brunetti, P. Carta, G. Cossu, M. L. Ganadu, B. Golosio, G. M. Mura and M. G. Pirastru

Comparison of Health State Utilities Using Community and Patient Preference Weights Derived from a Survey of Patients with HIV/AIDS pp. 27-38

Bruce R. Schackman, Sue J. Goldie, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Elena Losina, John Brazier and Milton C. Weinstein

Predicting Elderly Outpatients’ Life-Sustaining Treatment Preferences over Time: The Majority Rules pp. 39-52

Renate M. Houts, William D. Smucker, Jill A. Jacobson, Peter H. Ditto and Joseph H. Danks

Discrepancies between Chained and Classic Utilities Induced by Anchoring with Occasional Adjustments pp. 53-64

Peep F. M. Stalmeier

Physicians’ Attitudes toward Health Care Rationing pp. 65-70

Thomas V. Perneger, Diane P. Martin and Patrick A. Bovier

Effects of Baseline Risk Information on Social and Individual Choices pp. 71-75

Dorte Gyrd-Hansen, Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, Jørgen Nexøe and Jesper Bo Nielsen

Effect of Framing as Gain versus Loss on Understanding and Hypothetical Treatment Choices: Survival and Mortality Curves pp. 76-83

Katrina Armstrong, J. Sanford Schwartz, Genevieve Fitzgerald, Mary Putt and Peter A. Ubel

Law and Ethics pp. 84-85

Dennis J. Mazur