Medical Decision Making

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Volume 18, issue 4, 1998

Management of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm in Japan pp. 357-364

Noriaki Aoki, Takao Kitahara, Tsuguya Fukui, J. Robert Beck, Kazui Soma, Wari Yamamoto, Isao Kamae and Takashi Ohwada

Testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Breast-Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Genes pp. 365-375

Tammy O. Tengs, Eric P. Winer, Susan Paddock, Omar Aguilar-Chavez and Donald A. Berry

Corrections pp. 375-375

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The Danger of Applying Group-level Utilities in Decision Analyses of the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer in Individual Patients pp. 376-380

Mark E. Cowen, Brian J. Miles, Daniel F. Cahill, R. Brian Giesler, J. Robert Beck and Michael W. Kattan

Estimating General-population Utilities Using One Binary-gamble Question per Respondent pp. 381-390

Johanna L. Bosch, James Hammitt, Milton C. Weinstein and Maria G.M. Hunink

Patients' Utilities for Cancer Treatments pp. 391-399

Sylvia J.T. Jansen, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Peter Wakker, Thea P.M. Vliet Vlieland, Jan-Willem H. Leer, Marianne A. Nooy and Job Kievit

Time-tradeoff Values and Standard-gamble Utilities Assessed during Telephone Interviews versus Face-to-face Interviews pp. 400-405

Esther E. E. Van Wijck, Johanna L. Bosch and Maria G. M. Hunink

Attitudes of Obstetricians and Gynecologists toward Hormone Replacement Therapy pp. 406-411

Jonathan Baron, Gerald B. Holzman and Jay Schulkin

Clinical Diagnosis and the Order of Information pp. 412-417

George R. Bergus, Gretchen B. Chapman, Barcey T. Levy, John W. Ely and Robert A. Oppliger

Tests of Preferential Independence in the QALY Model pp. 418-428

Jonathan R. Treadwell

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring and Diagnostic Errors in Hypertension pp. 429-435

Javier Mar, Roberto Pastor, Rosa Abasolo and Ramón Ruiz De Gauna

A Bayesian Approach to a General Regression Model for ROC Curves pp. 436-443

Martin Hellmich, Keith R. Abrams, David R. Jones and Paul C. Lambert

Corrections pp. 443-443

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Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, and Calibration: A Reply pp. 444-445

Pablo Lapuerta, Gilbert L'Italien, Robert Giugliano and Kim A. Eagle

Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, and Calibration: A Rejoinder pp. 445-446

Ewout W. Steyerberg, Frank E. Harrell and Philip H. Goodman

Clarifying the Management Decision for Early Breast Cancer pp. 446-448

Richard K. Orr

Book Reviews: Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Second edition. By MICHAEL F. DRUMMOND, BERNIE O'BRIEN, GREG L. STODDARD, and GEORGE W. TORRANCE. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp 305, $37.50 (paperback), $89.50 (hardcover pp. 449-450

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Book Reviews: A Woman Doctor's Guide to Hormone Therapy— How to Choose What's Right for You. By NANANDA FRANCETTE COL. Worcester, Massachusetts: Tatnuck Book-seller Press, 1997, 205 pages. $24.95 pp. 450-452

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Law and Ethics Compiled by DENNIS J. MAZUR, MD, PhD Sociology of Law (Law, Institutions, and Organizations) SUCHMAN MC. On beyond interest: rational, normative and cognitive perspectives in the social scientific study of law. Wisconsin Law Review. 1997;475-501 pp. 452-452

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Law and Socio-economics ASHFORD R. Socio-economics: what is its place in law practice ? Wisconsin Law Review. 1997;1997:611-623 pp. 452-453

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Law and Ethics (Future Risk of Cancer) ZNANIECKI JE. Cancerphobia damages in medical malpractice claims. University of Illinois Law Review, 1997: 639-666 pp. 453-453

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Judgmental Psychology Compiled by ALAN SCHWARTZ, PhD Contingent Valuation BARON J. Biases in the quantitative measurement of values for public decisions. Psychological Bulletin. 1997; 122, 72-88. OLSEN JA. Aiding priority setting in health care: is there a role for the contingent valuation method? Health Economics. 1997; 6, 603-612 pp. 453-454

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Abstracts pp. 456-491

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Volume 18, issue 3, 1998

Perfect Timing, No Remorse, and Kidney Transplantation pp. 249-255

Donald A. Brand

Using a Treatment-tradeoff Method to Elicit Preferences for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer pp. 256-267

Michael D. Brundage, Judith R. Davidson, William J. Mackillop, Deb Feldman-Stewart and Patti Groome

Assessment of the Time-tradeoff Val ues for Prophylactic Mastectomy of Women with a Suspected Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer pp. 268-277

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

Prostate Cancer Patients' Utilities for Health States pp. 278-286

Gretchen B. Chapman, Arthur S. Elstein, Timothy M. Kuzel, Roohollah Sharifi, Robert B. Nadler, Anita Andrews and Charles L. Bennett

Correction pp. 286-286

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More Evidence of the Plateau Effect pp. 287-294

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades and Angel Lopez-Nicolás

Randomized Trial of a Portable, Self-administered Decision Aid for Postmenopausal Women Considering Long-term Preventive Hormone Therapy pp. 295-303

Annette M. O'Connor, Peter Tugwell, George A. Wells, Tom Elmslie, Elaine Jolly, Gary Hollingworth, Ruth Mcpherson, Elizabeth Drake, Wilma Hopman and Thomas Mackenzie

Text-to-algorithm Conversion to Facilitate Comparison of Competing Clinical Guidelines pp. 304-310

Nurit Barak, Carmi Z. Margolis and Lawrence K. Gottlieb

Validation of Models for Predicting the Use of Health Technologies pp. 311-319

João D. Scalon, Sergio M. Freire and Tacio A. Cunha

The Association of Physician Attitudes about Uncertainty and Risk Taking with Resource Use in a Medicare HMO pp. 320-329

Jeroan J. Allison, Catarina I. Kiefe, E. Francis Cook, Martha S. Gerrity, E. John Orav and Robert Centor

Nonparametric Willingness-to-pay Measures and Confidence Statements pp. 330-336

Magnus Tambour and Niklas Zethraeus

Uncertainty in Decision Models Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness pp. 337-346

Maria G.M. Hunink, Jan Roelf Bult, Jelle De Vries and Milton C. Weinstein

On the Dilemma of Preemptive Kidney Transplantation pp. 347-348

Israel David, John Hornberger and Joseph S. Pliskin

Neural Networks, Logistic Regression, and Calibration pp. 349-350

Ewout W. Steyerberg, Frank E. Harrell and Philip H. Goodman

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 pp. 351-352

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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 pp. 352-354

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 354-355

Dennis J. Mazur

Volume 18, issue 2_suppl, 1998

Economics, Pharmaceuticals, and Pharmacoeconomics pp. S1-S3

Magnus Johannesson and Bernie J. O'Brien

Pharmacoeconomics and Managed Care pp. S4-S11

Bryan R. Luce

Experimental versus Observational Data in the Economic Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals pp. S12-S18

Michael F. Drummond

Paying the Piper for Pharmacoeconomic Studies pp. S23-S26

Peter J. Neumann

Ex post Value Reimbursement for Pharmaceuticals pp. S27-S38

Hugh Gravelle

Predicting the Cost of Illness pp. S39-S56

Joseph Lipscomb, Marek Ancukiewicz, Giovanni Parmigiani, Vic Hasselblad, Greg Samsa and David B. Matchar

Eliciting Stated Health Preferences pp. S57-S67

F. Reed Johnson, William H. Desvousges, Melissa C. Ruby, David Stieb and Paul De Civita

Net Health Benefits pp. S68-S80

Aaron A. Stinnett and John Mullahy

Power and Sample Size Calculations for Stochastic Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. S81-S92

Andrew H. Briggs and Alastair Gray

A Monte Carlo Simulation of Advanced HIV Disease pp. S93-S105

A. David Paltiel, Julie A. Scharfstein, George R. Seage, Elena Losina, Sue J. Goldie, Milton C. Weinstein, Donald E. Craven and Kenneth A. Freedberg

Volume 18, issue 2, 1998

An International Comparison of Physicians' Judgments of Outcome Rates of Cardiac Procedures and Attitudes toward Risk, Uncertainty, Justifiability, and Regret pp. 131-140

Roy M. Poses, D. Mark Chaput De Saintonge, Donna K. Mcclish, Wally R. Smith, Elizabeth C. Huber, F. Lynne W. Clemo, Brian P. Schmitt, Donna Alexander-Forti, Edward M. Racht, Christopher C. Colenda and Robert M. Centor

Public Preferences for Prevention versus Cure: What if an Ounce of Prevention is Worth Only an Ounce of Cure? pp. 141-148

Peter A. Ubel, Mark D. Spranca, Michael L. Dekay, John C. Hershey and David A. Asch

Physicians' Diagnostic Judgments and Treatment Decisions for Acute Otitis Media in Children pp. 149-162

Claudia González-Vallejo, Paul C. Sorum, Thomas R. Stewart, John B. Chessare and Jeryl L. Mumpower

Correction pp. 162-162

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The Role of Clinical “Experience†in Diagnostic Performance pp. 163-167

Angelo Fasoli, Silvia Lucchelli and Renato Fasoli

Implicit Discount Rates of Vascular Surgeons in the Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms pp. 168-177

Ulrika Enemark, Carl H. Lyttkens, Thomas Troëng, Henrik Weibull and Jonas Ranstam

Sequence Effects, Health Profiles, and the QALY Model pp. 178-186

Paul F. M. Krabbe and Gouke J. Bonsel

Decision and Cost-Utility Analyses of Surgical versus Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus pp. 187-201

Darryl T. Gray and Milton C. Weinstein

Carrier Screening for Cystic Fibrosis pp. 202-212

David A. Asch, John C. Hershey, Michael L. Dekay, Mark V. Pauly, James P. Patton, M. Kathryn Jedrziewski, Frances Frei, Rose Giardine, Jeffrey A. Kant and Michael T. Mennuti

Treatment of Early-Stage Breast Cancer in the Elderly pp. 213-219

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

Effect of an Explicit Decision-Support Tool on Decisions to Prescribe Antibiotics for Sore Throat pp. 220-228

Warren J. McIsaac and Vivek Goel

Predicting Mortality after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery pp. 229-235

Jack V. Tu, Milton C. Weinstein, Barbara J. McNeil and C. David Naylor

Rating Scales in Context pp. 236-236

Alan Schwartz

Producing Informed Consumers and Users of Decision Analysis pp. 237-238

Jack Dowie

Confidentiality Agreements and Scientific Independence pp. 239-239

David G. Kern

Book Reviews pp. 240-244

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 245-246

Dennis J. Mazur

Announcements and Notices pp. 247-247

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Information for Authors pp. 248-249

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Volume 18, issue 1, 1998

Improving Evidence-based Decision Making—Recent Advances in Research-transfer Models pp. 1-2

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The Cochrane Collaboration-Advances and Challenges in Improving Evidence-based Decision Making pp. 2-9

Alejandro R. Jadad and R. Brian Haynes

The Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network and the Critical Care Research Network as Vehicles for Research Transfer pp. 9-16

William J. Sibbald and Jennifer D. Kossuth

Discussion pp. 16-18

C. David Naylor

Is the Defensive Use of Diagnostic Tests Good for Patients, or Bad? pp. 19-28

Michael L. DeKay and David A. Asch

Expected-utility Perspectives on Defensive Testing pp. 29-31

Stephen G. Pauker and Susan P. Pauker

Laboratory Testing May Not Glitter Like Gold pp. 32-33

David R. Rovner

Defensive Diagnostic Testing—A Case of Stolen Utility? pp. 33-34

Douglas K. Owens

Offensive Testing—the Balancing Act, the Evil Twin, and the Pure Play pp. 35-36

Michael L. DeKay and David A. Asch

Meta-analysis of Multitreatment Studies pp. 37-43

Vic Hasselblad

The Economics of Treatment for Infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome pp. 44-51

Nancy Neil, Sean D. Sullivan and Daniel S. Lessler

Fitting Multistate Transition Models with Autoregressive Logistic Regression pp. 52-60

Sybolt O. de Vries, Vaclav Fidler, Wietze D. Kuipers and Maria G.M. Hunink

What Attitudes and Beliefs Underlie Patients' Decisions about Participating in Chemotherapy Trials? pp. 61-69

Heather J. Sutherland, Raquel da Cunha, Gina A. Lockwood and James E. Till

Neural Network Assessment of Perioperative Cardiac Risk in Vascular Surgery Patients pp. 70-75

Pablo Lapuerta, Gilbert J. L'Italien, Sumita Paul, Robert C. Hendel, Jeffrey A. Leppo, Lee A. Fleisher, Mylan C. Cohen, Kim A. Eagle and Robert P. Giugliano

The Effect of Search Procedures on Utility Elicitations pp. 76-83

Leslie A. Lenert, Daniel J. Cher, Mary K. Goldstein, Merlynn R. Bergen and Alan Garber

Treatment Choices by Seriously III Patients pp. 84-94

Darrell J. Gaskin, Janet Kong, Neal J. Meropol, K. Robin Yabroff, Charles Weaver and Kevin A. Schulman

Sensitivity Analysis and the Expected Value of Perfect Information pp. 95-109

James C. Felli and Gordon B. Hazen

Statistical Comparison of Two ROC-curve Estimates Obtained from Partially-paired Datasets pp. 110-121

Charles E. Metz, Benjamin A. Herman and Cheryl A. Roe

Neural Networks and the Roles of Cross Validation pp. 122-123

Jørgen Hilden

In reply pp. 123-124

Georgia D. Tourassi and Carey E. Floyd

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 pp. 124-124

Paul F. Gross

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 pp. 124-126

Sundar Natarajan

Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 126-126

Dennis J. Mazur

Law and Ethics (Nursing and Malpractice Liability) pp. 127-127

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Announcements and Notices pp. 128-130

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