Medical Decision Making

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Volume 19, issue 4, 1999

Inconsistencies in the "Societal Perspective" on Costs of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine pp. 371-377

David Meltzer and Magnus Johannesson

• Realistic Rigor in Cost-Effectiveness Methods pp. 378-379

Alan M. Garber

• Improving the Panel's Recommendations pp. 379-380

Louise Russell

• Theoretically Correct Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 381-382

Milton C. Weinstein

•On the Role of Theory in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis- A Response to Garber, Russell, and Weinstein pp. 383-384

David Meltzer and Magnus Johannesson

Life Expectancy Estimation with Breast Cancer: Bias of the Declining Exponential Function and an Alternative to Its Use pp. 385-393

Robert R. Holland, Charles A. Ellis, Berta M. Geller, Dennis A. Plante and Roger H. Secker-Walker

How Patients' Preferences for Risk Information Influence Treatment Choice in a Case of High Risk and High Therapeutic Uncertainty pp. 394-398

Dennis J. Mazur, David H. Hickam and Marcus D. Mazur

Development of a Pediatric Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score pp. 399-410

Stéphane Leteurtre, Alain Martinot, Alain Duhamel, France Gauvin, Bruno Grandbastien, Thi Vu Nam, François Proulx, Jacques Lacroix and Francis Leclerc

Medical Decision Making in the Choice of a Thrombolytic Agent for Acute Myocardial Infarction pp. 411-418

James M. Brophy, Lawrence Joseph and Pierre Theroux

Evaluation of a Decision-support System for Preoperative Staging of Prostate Cancer pp. 419-427

Phei Lang ChangHANG, Li, Min Wang Ta, Shih Tsung Huang, Ming Li Hsieh and Ke Hung Tsui

How Should Effectiveness of Risk Communication to Aid Patients' Decisions Be Judged? pp. 428-434

Adrian Edwards and Glyn Elwyn

The Discrepancy between Risky and Riskless Utilities pp. 435-447

Peep F.M. Stalmeier and Thom G.G. Bezembinder

Motivating Mammography Adherence in Elderly Latinas pp. 448-465

Clairice T. Veit

Do People Value Their Own Future Health Differently from Others' Future Health? pp. 466-472

John Cairns and Marjon van der Pol

Effects on Preferences of Violations of Procedural Invariance pp. 473-481

Leslie A. Lenert and Jonathan R. Treadwell

Whose Preferences Count? pp. 482-486

Paul Dolan

Assessing Convergent Validity of Health-state Utilities Obtained Using Different Scaling Methods pp. 487-498

Carol A.E. Nickerson

Sensitivity Analysis on a Chance Node with More Than Two Branches pp. 499-502

Peter P. Sendi and Robert T. Clemen

Does DEALE-ing Stack the Deck? pp. 503-504

J. Robert Beck and Stephen G. Pauker

A Call to Standardize Measures for Judging the Efficacy of Interventions to Aid Patients' Decision Making pp. 504-505

Annette M. O'Connor

On the Role of Framing Effects in Assessment of Health-related Utilities pp. 505-506

Celia E. Wills

Editing Medical Decision Making pp. 507-508

Arthur S. Elstein

Book Reviews: Respecting Patient Autonomy. By BENJAMIN H. LEVI. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999, 222 pp, pa perback, $19.95 pp. 509-510

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Book Reviews: The Economics of Health Reconsidered. By THOMAS RICE. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press, 1998, pp. 194, hardcover: $38.00 pp. 510-511

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Law and Ethics pp. 512-513

Dennis J. Mazur

Judgmental Psychology pp. 513-514

Alan Schwartz

Abstracts pp. 517-544

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Volume 19, issue 3, 1999

Women's Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk pp. 221-229

Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, William C. Black and H. Gilbert Welch

Evaluation of a Shared Decision Making Program for Women Suspected to Have a Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer pp. 230-241

Peep F.M. Stalmeier, Ivana J. Unic, Lia C.G. Verhoef and Willem A.J. Van Daal

Incorporating the Time Dimension in Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer pp. 242-251

Ruth Etzioni, Margaret Pepe, Gary Longton, Chengcheng Hu and Gary Goodman

Bayesian Approaches to Meta-analysi of ROC Curves pp. 252-264

Martin Hellmich, Keith R. Abrams and Alex J. Sutton

A Comparison of Preference Assessment Instruments Used in a Clinical Trial pp. 265-275

Henry A. Glick, Daniel Polsky, Richard J. Willke and Kevin A. Schulman

Correlations in Uncertainty Analysis for Medical Decision Making pp. 276-286

Antonio G. Chessa, Rommert Dekker, Bas Van Vliet, Ewout W. Steyerberg and J. Dik F. Habbema

Use of Focus Groups to Identify Concerns about Dialysis pp. 287-295

Eric B. Bass, Mollie W. Jenckes, Nancy E. Fink, Kate A. Cagney, Albert W. Wu, John H. Sadler, Klemens B. Meyer, Andrews. Levey and Neil R. Powe

Screening Blood Donations for Hepatitis C in Central Africa pp. 296-306

Nicole Cancré, Frédéric Bois, Gérard Grésenguet, Catherine Fretz, Jean-Jacques Fournel and Laurent Bélec

Time Preferences and Preventive Health Behavior pp. 307-314

Gretchen B. Chapman and Elliot J. Coups

Are More Options Always Better? pp. 315-323

Janet A. Schwartz and Gretchen B. Chapman

Framing Effects in Choices between Multioutcome Life-expectancy Lotteries pp. 324-338

Lionel M. Bernstein, Gretchen B. Chapman and Arthur S. Elstein

Power and Sample Size in Cost- Effectiveness Analysis pp. 339-343

Eugene M. Laska, Morris Meisner and Carole Siegel

Health Values and Prospect Theory pp. 344-352

Jonathan R. Treadwell and Leslie A. Lenert

Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis Incorporating the Bootstrap pp. 353-363

David J. Pasta, Jennifer L. Taylor and James M. Henning

Book Reviews: Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions. By JOHN S. HAMMOND, RALPH L. KEENEY, and HOWARD RAIFFA. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999, 272 pages, hardcover: $22.50 pp. 364-364

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Book Reviews: Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improv ing Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998, 136 pages, $26.00 pp. 364-366

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Law and Ethics pp. 366-367

Dennis J. Mazur

Judgmental Psychology pp. 368-369

Alan Schwartz

Volume 19, issue 2, 1999

Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes pp. 113-120

Linda D. Mackeigan, Bernie J. O'Brien and Paul I. Oh

Subjective Health Status and Health Values in the General Population pp. 122-127

Amir Shmueli

The Relationship between Health-state Utilities and the SF-12 in a General Population pp. 128-140

Lena Lundberg, Magnus Johannesson, Dag G.L. Isacson and Lars Borgquist

Health-related Quality of Life in Economic Evaluations for Osteoporosis pp. 141-148

Sherine E. Gabriel, Terry S. Kneeland, L. Joseph Melton, Megan M. Moncur, Bruce Ettinger and Anna N.A. Tosteson

Conventional and Chained Standard Gambles in the Assessment of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment pp. 149-156

Lyne Lalonde, Ann E. Clarke, Lawrence Joseph and Steven A. Grover

Distributed Decision Support Using a Web-based Interface pp. 157-166

Gillian D. Sanders, C. Greg Hagerty, Frank A. Sonnenberg, Mark A. Hlatky and Douglas K. Owens

An Analysis of Optimal Resource Allocation for Prevention of Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Injection Drug Users and Non-Users pp. 167-179

Anke Richter, Margaret L. Brandeau and Douglas K. Owens

Reliability Block Diagrams to Model Disease Management pp. 180-185

Amnon Sonnenberg, John M. Inadomi and Peter Bauerfeind

A Survey of Gynecologists' Attitudes Regarding Decision Making in the Management of Non-cancerous Conditions That Frequently Result in Hysterectomy pp. 186-192

James G. Dolan and Fred M. Howard

Goodness-of-fit Issues in ROC Curve Estimation pp. 193-201

Stephen J. Walsh

Relative Entropy as a Measure of Diagnostic Information pp. 202-206

William A. Benish

Implicit Valuation of a Blood-exclusion Decision pp. 207-213

Edward H. Kaplan

Plotting ROC Curves pp. 214-215

MossManr Douglas

In the Matter of Dr. George Lundberg pp. 215-215

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Book Reviews: Making Medical Decisions: An Approach to Clinical Decision Making for Practicing Physicians. By RICHARD GROSS. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American College of Physicians, 1999, 119 pages, $18.00, paperback pp. 216-217

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Book Reviews: Signal Detection Theory and ROC Analysis in Psychology and Diagnostics: Collected Papers. By JOHN A. SWETS. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, 308 pages, $54.95, hardbound pp. 217-217

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Patentability of Software Data Structures CHAN C. The patentability of software data structures after Lowry and Warmerdam [Notes]. New England Law Review. 1998;32:899-927 pp. 218-219

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Law and Ethics Compiled by DENNIS J. MAZUR, MD, PhD Design Defect Liability of Prescription Drugs TORBORG DS. Design defect liability and prescription drugs: who's in charge? Ohio State Law Journal. 1998;59: 633-661 pp. 218-218

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Judgmental Psychology Compiled by ALAN SCHWARTZ, PhD Evaluating "Divide and Conquer" MORERA, OF, BUDESCU, DV. A psychometric analysis of the "divide and conquer" principle in multicriteria decision. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 1998;75,187-206 pp. 219-220

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Volume 19, issue 1, 1999

Cost—Effectiveness of Regulations against Using a Cellular Telephone while Driving pp. 1-8

Donald A. Redelmeier and Milton C. Weinstein

Problems with Interval Estimates of the Incremental Cost—Effectiveness Ratio pp. 9-15

Daniel F. Heitjan, Alan J. Moskowitz and William Whang

The Stability of Preferences for Life-sustaining Care among Persons with AIDS in the Boston Health Study pp. 16-26

Joel S. Weissman, Jennifer S. Haas, Floyd J. Fowler, Constantine Gatsonis, Michael P. Massagli, George R. Seage and Paul Cleary

Measuring Patient Preferences by Willingness to Pay to Avoid pp. 27-37

Paul Clay Sorum

A Method for Evaluating Health Care Providers' Decision Making pp. 38-41

James G. Dolan

A Practice Pathway for the Initial Diagnostic Evaluation of Isolated Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsies pp. 42-48

Ruth W. Miller, Andrew G. Lee, Jade S. Schiffman, Thomas C. Prager, Raymund Garza, Patricia F. Jenkins, Paul Sforza, Alan Verm, David Kaufman, Wendy Robinson, Eric Eggenberger and Rosa A. Tang

Analysis of Three Decision-making Methods pp. 49-57

Kimbroe J. Carter, Nathan P. Ritchey, Frank Castro, Leonard P. Caccamo, Edward Kessler and Barbara A. Erickson

Multiattribute Utility Scores for Predicting Family Physicians' Decisions Regarding Sinusitis pp. 58-65

Geertruida H. de Bock, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Johannes C. van Houwelingen, J. André Knottnerus and Job Kievit

Patient or Physician Preferences for Decision Analysis pp. 66-77

Paul S. Heckerling, Marion S. Verp and Nancy Albert

Three-way ROCs pp. 78-89

Douglas Mossman

Computing Population-based Estimates of Health-adjusted Life Expectancy pp. 90-97

Marjorie A. Rosenberg, Dennis G. Fryback and William F. Lawrence

What is the Government's Perspective pp. 98-99

Teresa L. Kauf

Government and Society pp. 100-101

Joseph Lipscomb

Calling while Driving pp. 101-102

Joel Tsevat

Is It Really So Bad to be Unambiguously Ineificient? pp. 102-103

Aaron A. Stinnett

Book Reviews: Medical Futility and the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions. Edited by MARJORIE B. ZUCKER and HOWARD D. ZUCKER. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 201, $23.95, paperback pp. 104-105

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Book Reviews: In the New Communications Age: Health Care Telematics for the 21st Century (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 24). Edited by M. F. LAIRES, M. J. LADEIRA, and J. P. CHRISTENSEN. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, 1995, pp. 733, $120.00 pp. 105-106

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Law and Ethics Compiled by DENNIS J. MAZUR, MD, PhD Law and Game Theory DAU-SCHMIDT K, RASMUSEN E, et al. On game theory and the law. Law and Society. 1997;31:613-629. The authors review Baird D, Gertner R, Picker R. Game Theory and the Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994 pp. 107-107

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Law and Sociology of Knowledge (Court-Compelled Disclosure of Research Data) CECIL JS, WETHERINGTON GT (special editors). Court-ordered disclosure of academic research: a clash of values of science and law. Law and Contemporary Problems. 1996;59:1-191 pp. 107-108

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Judgmental Psychology Compiled by ALAN SCHWARTZ, PhD Framing Effects KUHBERGER, A. The influence of framing on risky decisions: a meta-analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 1998; 75, 23-55 pp. 108-109

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Announcements and Notices pp. 110-111

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Information for Authors pp. 115-116

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