Medical Decision Making

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Volume 17, issue 4, 1997

Cost-Effectiveness of Repeat Medical Procedures pp. 363-372

John C. Hornberger, Jennie H. Best and Louis P. Garrison

The Cost-Effectiveness of Fluconazole Prophylaxis against Primary Systemic Fungal Infections in AIDS Patients pp. 373-381

Julie A. Scharfstein, A. David Paltiel and Kenneth A. Freedberg

Incorporating Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis pp. 382-389

Magnus Johannesson, David Meltzer and Richard M. O'Conor

Assessing Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses pp. 390-401

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

Are Methods for Estimating QALYs in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Improving? pp. 402-408

Peter J. Neumann, Darren E. Zinner and Janice C. Wright

A Normative Analytic Framework for Development of Practice Guidelines for Specific Clinical Populations pp. 409-426

Douglas K. Owens and Robert F. Nease

A Survey of Clinicians' Opinions Regarding the Value of Published Decision Analyses as Sources of Clinically Useful Information pp. 427-430

James G. Dolan

Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Estimating Quality-adjusted Life Years pp. 431-438

Scott D. Ramsey, Ruth Etzioni, Andrea Troxel and Nicole Urban

Construct Validities of the Quality of Well-Being Scale and the MOS-HIV-34 Health Survey for HIV-infected Patients pp. 439-446

Tom E. Hughes, Robert M. Kaplan, Stephen Joel Coons, Jolaine R. Draugalis, Jeffrey A. Johnson and Thomas L. Patterson

Application of Treatment Thresholds to Diagnostic-test Evaluation pp. 447-454

Karel G.M. Moons, Theo Stijnen, Bowine C. Michel, Harry R. Büller, Gerrit-Anne Van Es, Diederick E. Grobbee and J. Dik F. Habbema

Whose Blood Is Safer? pp. 455-463

Eugene Litvak, Joanna E. Siegel, Stephen G. Pauker, Marc Lallemant, Harvey V. Fineberg and Milton C. Weinstein

Patient Preferences for Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction pp. 464-471

Eric J. Stanek, Judy W.M. Cheng, Patricia J. Peeples, Robert J. Simko and Sarah A. Spinler

Hepatitis B Immunization in a Low-incidence Province of Canada pp. 472-482

Tim Wiebe, Patricia Fergusson, Digby Horne, Marian Shanahan, Anna Macdonald, Lynn Heise and Leslie L. Roos

Estimating CE Ratios under Second-order Uncertainty pp. 483-489

Aaron A. Stinnett and A. David Paltiel

The Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Testing pp. 490-495

A. David Paltiel and Edward H. Kaplan

The Power and Pitfalls of Simplifying Assumptions pp. 496-497

Mark S. Roberts

MDM Policy Regarding Financial Support of Authors pp. 497-498

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Do the Expected Utility Axioms Hide Flaws? pp. 498-499

Brian J. Cohen

Breast Cancer Screening at Ages 40-49 pp. 499-500

Dewey Scheid, Robert Hamm and Frank Lawler

Book Reviews: Introduction to Technology Assessment for Radiologists: An Anthology of Readings and Materials for Self-Study Course. By Dennis G. Fryback, Rebecca C. Hutton, and William F. Lawrence. Milwaukee, WI: General Electric Medical Systems, 1995. Loose-leaf, two volumes in three-ring binders, includes disk with example spreadsheet files and ROC software. $120 institution, $95 student pp. 500-501

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Book Reviews: Decision Making and Forecasting. By Kneale T. Marshall and Robert M. Oliver. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1995. 407 pp, hardbound, $61.25 pp. 501-502

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 503-504

Dennis J. Mazur

Announcements and Notices pp. 504-504

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Abstracts pp. 517-544

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Volume 17, issue 3, 1997

Representation and Analysis of Medical Decision Problems with Influence Diagrams pp. 241-262

Douglas K. Owens, Ross D. Shachter and Robert F. Nease

Use of Influence Diagrams to Structure Medical Decisions pp. 263-275

Robert F. Nease and Douglas K. Owens

Dollars May Not Buy as Many QALYs as We Think pp. 276-284

Dennis G. Fryback and William F. Lawrence

The Use of Confidence Intervals for Individual Utilities pp. 285-291

Frits H.J. Roest, Marinus J.C. Eijkemans, Jos Van Der Donk, Peter C. Levendag, Cees A. Meeuwis, Paul I.M. Schmitz and J. Dik F. Habbema

Cardiologists' Use of Clinical Information for Management Decisions for Patients with Unstable Angina pp. 292-297

Addy J.M. Van Miltenburg-Van Zijl, Patrick M.M. Bossuyt, Robert W. Nette, Maarten L. Simoons and Thomas R. Taylor

Patient Participation in Deciding Breast Cancer Treatment and Subsequent Quality of Life pp. 298-306

Richard L. Street and Becky Voigt

Making Treatment Decisions with HIV Infection pp. 307-314

Barry D. Rosenfeld, Mary White and Steven D. Passik

Community-based Research—A Framework for Problem Formulation pp. 315-323

Mark Helfand, Megan A. Oehlke and David A. Lieberman

Preference Values for Visual States in Patients Planning to Undergo Cataract Surgery pp. 324-330

Eric B. Bass, Stacey Wills, Ingrid U. Scott, Jonathan C. Javitt, James M. Tielsch, Oliver D. Schein and Earl P. Steinberg

Exorcising Protocol-induced Spirits pp. 331-339

Brian E. Rittenhouse

Incorporating Risk Attitude into Markov-process Decision Models pp. 340-350

Daniel J. Cher, John Miyamoto and Leslie A. Lenert

Influence Diagrams pp. 351-352

Mark Helfand and Stephen G. Pauker

Health State Utility Anchors pp. 352-353

Bernie J. O'Brien

Patient Participation and Decision Control pp. 353-354

Hanneke C.J.M. De Haes and Sjaak Molenaar

Risk Attitude and Time Discounting pp. 355-356

Gretchen Chapman

Book Reviews: Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry. By Regina Herzlinger. New York: Addison-Wes ley, 1997, pp. 379, $25.00 pp. 357-358

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Book Reviews: Bringing the Hospital Home—Ethical and Social Im plications of High-Tech Home Care. Edited by John D. Arras. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, pp. 259, $40.00 pp. 358-359

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Volume 17, issue 2, 1997

Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 1—Getting Started pp. 123-125

Allan S. Detsky, Gary Naglie, Murray D. Krahn, David Naimark and Donald A. Redelmeier

Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 2—Building a Tree pp. 126-135

Allan S. Detsky, Gary Naglie, Murray D. Krahn, Donald A. Redelmeier and David Naimark

Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 3—Estimating Probabilities and Utilities pp. 136-141

Gary Naglie, Murray D. Krahn, David Naimark, Donald A. Redelmeier and Allan S. Detsky

Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 4-Analyzing the Model and Interpreting the Results pp. 142-151

Murray D. Krahn, Gary Naglie, David Naimark, Donald A. Redelmeier and Allan S. Detsky

Primer on Medical Decision Analysis: Part 5—Working with Markov Processes pp. 152-159

David Naimark, Murray D. Krahn, Gary Naglie, Donald A. Redelmeier and Allan S. Detsky

Deciding Eligibility for Transplantation When a Donor Kidney Becomes Available pp. 160-170

John Hornberger and Jae-Hyeon Ahn

Failure of Three Decision Rules to Predict the Outcome of In-hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation pp. 171-177

Mark H. Ebell, James A. Kruse, Mindy Smith, Jeanne Novak and Joelle Drader-Wilcox

Use of a Probabilistic Neural Network to Estimate the Risk of Mortality after Cardiac Surgery pp. 178-185

Richard K. Orr

The Effect of Data Sampling on the Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks in Medical Diagnosis pp. 186-192

Georgia D. Tourassi and Carey E. Floyd

A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Orphan Drug Cysteamine in the Treatment of Infantile Cystinosis pp. 193-198

Nelson Soohoo, Jerry A. Schneider and Robert M. Kaplan

The Influences of Patient Characteristics and Physician Experience on Case Recall pp. 199-207

Richard Durante, John B. McKinlay, Linda Kasten and Deborah A. Potter

An Experimental Test of a Theoretical Foundation for Rating-scale Valuations pp. 208-216

Han Bleichrodt and Magnus Johannesson

Is Experience a Good Teacher? pp. 217-227

Ira B. Wilson, Michael L. Green, Lee Goldman, Joel Tsevat, E. Francis Cook and Russell S. Phillips

Guidelines for Verbal Presentations of Medical Decision Analyses pp. 228-230

Donald A. Redelmeier, Allan S. Detsky, Murray D. Krahn, David Naimark and Gary Naglie

Organ Allocation and the Secretary Problem pp. 231-232

A. David Paltiel

When to Teach Bayesian Reasoning pp. 233-233

Eta S. Berner

Book and Software Reviews: Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conven tional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, By Michael Lerner, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994. 667 pp, paper, $17.95 pp. 234-237

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Book and Software Reviews: Dataâ„¢, Software for Decision Analysis. TreeAge Software, Inc., Williamstown, MA, $450 ($225 for academic institutions, Student Version $40 with a minimum of ten copies pp. 237-238

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 239-240

Dennis J. Mazur

Volume 17, issue 1, 1997

Predicting Quality of Well-being Scores from the SF-36 pp. 1-9

Dennis G. Fryback, William F. Lawrence, Patricia A. Martin, Ronald Klein and Barbara E.K. Klein

A Method to Elicit Utilities for Interpersonal Comparisons pp. 10-20

Ann M. Holmes

The Validity of QALYs pp. 21-32

Han Bleichrodt and Magnus Johannesson

The importance of Perspective in the Measurement of Quality-adjusted Life Years pp. 33-41

Jeff Richardson and Erik Nord

Can Preference Scores for Discrete States Be Used to Derive Preference Scores for an Entire Path of Events? pp. 42-55

Miriam Kuppermann, Stephen Shiboski, David Feeny, Eric P. Elkin and A. Eugene Washington

The Influence of Physician Explanations on Patient Preferences about Future Health-care States pp. 56-60

Dennis J. Mazur and David H. Hickam

Diagnostic Value of Signs and Symptoms Associated with Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease Seen in General Practice pp. 61-70

Henri E.J.H. Stoffers, Arnold D.M. Kester, Victor Kaiser, Paula E.L.M. Rinkens and J. André Knottnerus

Assessing Rater Performance without a "Gold Standard" Using Consensus Theory pp. 71-79

Susan C. Weller and N. Clay Mann

The impact of Computer-assisted Test Interpretation on Physician Decision Making pp. 80-86

David J. Brailer, Eugene Kroch and Mark V. Pauly

Determining Transition Probabilities from Mortality Rates and Autopsy Findings pp. 87-93

William C. Black, Robert F. Nease and H. Gilbert Welch

A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to ROC Analysis of Quantitative Diagnostic Tests pp. 94-102

Karim O. Hajian-Tilaki, James A. Hanley, Lawrence Joseph and Jean-Paul Collet

Test-indication Curves pp. 103-106

Joseph Bernstein

Good Technologies Gone Bad pp. 107-117

Charles E. Phelps

Book Reviews: Humane Medicine. By MILES LITTLE. New York: Cam bridge University Press, 1995, pp. xi + 195, $49.95 hard- bound, $16.95 paperback pp. 118-120

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Book Reviews: The Health Care Ethics Consultant. Edited by FRAN- COISE E. BAYLIS. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1994, 209 pp., $44.50 pp. 120-121

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 121-122

Dennis J. Mazur