Medical Decision Making

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Volume 16, issue 4, 1996

Routine Individual Feedback on Requests for Diagnostic Tests pp. 309-314

Ron A.G. Winkens, André J.H.A. Ament, Peter Pop, Peter H.A. Reniers, Richard P.T.M. Grol and André J. Knottnerus

Decision-theoretic Refinement Planning in Medical Decision Making pp. 315-325

Peter Haddawy, Anhai Doan and Charles E. Kahn

A Cost Analysis of the Prevention of End-stage Renal Disease pp. 326-334

Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Sylvie Bastuji-Garin, Stéphane Zaleski, Bertrand Weil and Guy Rostoker

Comparing Three Versions of the Time Tradeoff pp. 335-347

J. Kenneth Buckingham, Jennifer Birdsall and John Graham Douglas

Predicting In-hospital Mortality for Stroke Patients pp. 348-356

Lisa I. Iezzoni, Michael Shwartz, Arlene S. Ash and Yevgenia D. Mackiernan

The Discrepancy between Daily Practice and the Policy of a Decision-analytic Model pp. 357-366

Danielle R.M. Timmermans, Arwen J. Sprij and Chris E. De Bel

Finding the Optimal Multiple-test Strategy Using a Method Analogous to Logistic Regression pp. 367-375

Robert J. Richards, James Hammitt and Joel Tsevat

Assigning Values to Intermediate Health States for Cost-Utility Analysis pp. 376-385

Brian J. Cohen

Neural Networks in Clinical Medicine pp. 386-398

Will Penny and David Frost

Do Violations of the Axioms of Expected Utility Theory Threaten Decision Analysis? pp. 399-403

Robert F. Nease

Bayesian Analysis of ROC Curves Using Markov-chain Monte Carlo Methods pp. 404-411

Fengchun Peng and W.Jack Hall

Inferences for Likelihood Ratios in the Absence of a "Gold Standard" pp. 412-417

Lawrence Joseph and Theresa W. Gyorkos

Feedback of Performance and Diagnostic Testing pp. 418-419

William M. Tierney

Decision-theoretic Refinement Planning pp. 419-420

Bruce E. Hillner

Immunoglobulin Therapy for IgA Nephropathy pp. 420-421

Frank A. Sonnenberg

A Word from the Editor pp. 422-422

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants pp. 423-423

Donald A. Redelmeier

Book Reviews: Surgical Intuition. What It is and How to Get It. By CHARLES M. ABERNATHY and ROBERT M. HAMM. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hanley & Belfus/Mosby, 1995, 434 pp., $39.95 pp. 424-427

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 427-428

Dennis J. Mazur

Abstracts pp. 440-471

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Volume 16, issue 3, 1996

Perspectives on Healthy-years Equivalents pp. 205-206

Milton C. Weinstein and Joseph S. Pliskin

A Criticism of Healthy-years Equivalents pp. 207-214

Peter Wakker

HYEs: Do We Need Them and Can They Fulfil the Promise? pp. 215-216

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HYEs: Rejoinder pp. 216-216

Peter Wakker

The Relationship between Descriptive and Valuational Quality-of-life Measures in Patients with Intermittent Claudication pp. 217-225

Johanna L. Bosch and Maria G.M. Hunink

Heterogeneity in the Relationship between the Standard-gamble Utility Measure and Health-status Dimensions pp. 226-233

Jan Roelf Bult, Johanna L. Bosch and Maria G.M. Hunink

Public Perceptions of the Importance of Prognosis in Allocating Transplantable Livers to Children pp. 234-241

Peter A. Ubel and George Loewenstein

An Empirical Note on Willingness to Pay and Starting-point Bias pp. 242-247

Nils-Olov Stålhammar

Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Angina Pectoris Attacks pp. 248-253

Bernt Kartman, Fredrik Andersson and Magnus Johannesson

Long-term Care Residents' Preferences for Health States on the Quality of Well-Being Scale pp. 254-261

Ron D. Hays, Albert L. Siu, Emmett Keeler, Grant N. Marshall, Robert M. Kaplan, Sandra Simmons, Daryl El Mouchi and John F. Schnelle

Using a Trade-off Technique to Assess Patients' Treatment Preferences for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia pp. 262-272

Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, J. Ivan Williams, Linda Levy and C.D. Naylor

The Psychology of Good Judgment pp. 273-280

Gerd Gigerenzer

How Convergence of Research Paradigms Can Improve Research on Diagnostic Judgment pp. 281-287

Kenneth R. Hammond

When Do the "Dollars" Make Sense? pp. 288-299

Bernie O'Brien and Amiram Gafni

Comorbidities and Utility for Angina Symptoms pp. 300-302

Robert F. Nease, Graham Nichol, Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas and C. David Naylor

On ROC Analysis pp. 302-303

Leonid V. Philosophov and X.H. Zhou

Book Reviews: Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical in novations. Edited by HOWARD S. FRAZIER and FREDERICK MOSTELLER. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univer sity Press, 1995, 311 pp, hardbound, $39.95 pp. 303-305

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Book Reviews: Managed Care: Principles and Practice—Health Care Management. Edited by HARVEY JOLT and MARTIN M. LEIGOVICI. Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, 1995, 281 pp, $59.00 pp. 305-306

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 306-307

Dennis J. Mazur

Volume 16, issue 2, 1996

Oregon's Medicaid Ranking and Cost- Effectiveness pp. 99-107

Tammy O. Tengs, Gregg Meyer, Joanna E. Siegel, Joseph S. Pliskin, John D. Graham and Milton C. Weinstein

Individual Utilities Are Inconsistent with Rationing Choices pp. 108-116

Peter A. Ubel, George Loewenstein, Dennis Scanlon and Mark Kamlet

The Oregon Priority-setting Exercise pp. 117-119

David Hadorn

On the Equivalence of Collectively and Individually Collected Responses pp. 120-132

Paul F.M. Krabbe, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot and Gouke J. Bonsel

The Effect of Disease-prevalence Adjustments on the Accuracy of a Logistic Prediction Model pp. 133-142

Anthony P. Morise, George A. Diamond, Robert Detrano, Marco Bobbio and Erdogan Gunel

Statistical Comparison of ROC Curves from Multiple Readers pp. 143-152

Marijke Swaving, Hans Van Houwelingen, Fenno P. Ottes and Ton Steerneman

Performance of a Neural Network Trained to Make Third-molar Treatment-planning Decisions pp. 153-160

Mark R. Brickley and Jonathan P. Shepherd

Decision Making with Respect to Diagnostic Testing pp. 161-168

John Cairns, Phil Shackley and Vanora Hundley

Angina Patients' Ratings of Current Health and Health without Angina pp. 169-177

Arnold Y. Chen, Jennifer Daley and George E. Thibault

Sequential Test Selection in the Analysis of Abdominal Pain pp. 178-183

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

Tradeoffs between Quality and Quantity of Life pp. 184-192

Anne M. Stiggelbout, J.C.J.M. De Haes, Gwendoline M. Kiebert, Job Kievit and Jan-Willem H. Leer

How to Write a Good Abstract pp. 193-194

Thomas G. Tape, David H. Hickam and Roy M. Poses

Disease Spectrum and Health-status Perceptions pp. 195-196

Neal V. Dawson

Sampling Design Matters pp. 197-197

Craig A. Beam

Equation and Nomogram for Calculation of Testing and Treatment Thresholds pp. 198-199

Benjamin Djulbegovic and Ahmed H. Desoky

Book Reviews: The Incompetent Doctor: Behind Closed Doors. By MARILYN M. ROSENTHAL. Bristol, Pennsylvania: Open Uni versity Press, 1995, 167 pp, $79.00 pp. 200-201

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Book Reviews: Making the Patient Your Partner. Communication Skills for Doctors and Other Caregivers. By THOMAS GORDON and W. STERLING EDWARDS. Westport, Connecticut: Auburn House, 1995, 213 pp, $49.95 pp. 201-202

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 202-203

Dennis J. Mazur

Volume 16, issue 1, 1996

Is Expected Utility Theory Normative for Medical Decision Making? pp. 1-6

Brian J. Cohen

Why Expected Utility Theory Is Normative, but Not Prescriptive pp. 7-9

Jonathan Baron

The Normative Status of Expected Utility Theory pp. 7-7

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The Strengths and Limitations of Expected Utility Theory pp. 9-10

George Wu

Is Risk Neutrality Rational? pp. 10-11

John Douard

Expected Utility Theory—Is It Normative or Simply "Practical"? pp. 12-13

Louis Eeckhoudt

Reply: Utilitarianism, Risk Aversion, and Expected Utility pp. 14-14

Brian J. Cohen

Eccentric Diagnostic Tests pp. 15-23

Eugene Somoza

Empirical Bayes Combination of Estimated Areas under ROC Curves Using Estimating Equations pp. 24-28

Xiao H. Zhou

Validating Literature-based Models with Direct Clinical Trial Results pp. 29-35

Kenneth A. Freedberg, W. David Hardy, Robert S. Holzman, Anna N.A. Tosteson and Donald E. Craven

Proportional Heuristics in Time Tradeoff and Conjoint Measurement pp. 36-44

Peep F.M. Stalmeier, Thom G.G. Bezembinder and Ivana J. Unic

Justifying Prenatal Screening and Genetic Amniocentesis Programs by Cost-Effectiveness Analyses pp. 45-50

Theodore G. Ganiats

Modeling Boolean Decision Rules Applied to Multiple-observer Decision Strategies pp. 51-57

William Maguire

Patient Satisfaction with Health Care Decisions pp. 58-64

Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Jill Kroll, Neal Schmitt, David R. Rovner, M. Lynn Breer, Marilyn L. Rothert, Georgia Padonu and Geraldine Talarczyk

Measuring Heart Patients' Willingness to Pay for Changes in Angina Symptoms pp. 65-76

Lauraine G. Chestnut, L. Robin Keller, William E. Lambert and Robert D. Rowe

The Relationship between Cardiac Functional Capacity and Patients' Symptom-specific Utilities for Angina pp. 78-85

Graham Nichol, Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, Elaine C. Thiel and C. David Naylor

The College Student, the Dentist, and the North Carolina Senator pp. 86-91

Edward N. Robinson and Ruth De Bliek

Book Reviews: Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation. By DONALD L. PATRICK and PENNIFER ERICKSON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 478 pp, $65.00 pp. 92-93

Franklin N. Laufer

Book Reviews: Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine. By RUTH ELLEN BULGER, E M. BOBBY, and HARVEY V FINEBERG Washington, DC National Academy Press, 1995, pp 541, $59.95 pp. 93-93

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Book Reviews: Comparative Approaches to Medical Reasoning, edited by M. E COHEN and L. D HUDSON. River Edge, NJ. World Scientific Publishing Company Pte Ltd, 1995, pp 317, $86 00 pp. 93-95

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Judgmental Psychology, Law, and Ethics pp. 96-97

Dennis J. Mazur