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Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice

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An important practical objective of empirical studies of treatment response is to provide decision makers with information useful in choosing treatments. Often the decision maker is a planner who must choose treatments for the members of a heterogeneous population; for example, a physician may choose medical treatments for a population of patients. Studies of treatment response cannot provide all the information that planners would like to have, but researchers can be of service by addressing several questions: How should studies be designed in order to be most informative? How should studies report their findings so as to be most useful in decision making? How should planners utilize the information that studies provide? This paper addresses aspects of these broad questions, focusing on pervasive problems of identification that arise when studying treatment response and making treatment choices

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  • Charles F. Manski, 2008. "Studying Treatment Response to Inform Treatment Choice," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 91-92, pages 93-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2008:i:91-92:p:93-105
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    1. Charles F. Manski, 2018. "Reasonable patient care under uncertainty," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(10), pages 1397-1421, October.
    2. Charles F. Manski, 2017. "Improving Clinical Guidelines and Decisions under Uncertainty," NBER Working Papers 23915, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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