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May 2005, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 241-245 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 246-247 Benefits, Harms, and the Design of Clinical Trials
by Donald A. Brand - 248-249 Are We Ready for Patient-Based Effect Sizes in Clinical-Trials Research?
by Harold P. Lehmann - 250-261 Sufficiently Important Difference: Expanding the Framework of Clinical Significance
by Bruce Barrett & David Brown & Marlon Mundt & Roger Brown - 262-282 Assessing the Likelihood of an Important Clinical Outcome: New Insights from a Comparison of Clinical and Actuarial Judgment
by Tim Rakow & Charles Vincent & Kate Bull & Nigel Harvey - 283-289 Mammographers’ Perception of Women’s Breast Cancer Risk
by Joseph R. Egger & Gary R. Cutter & Patricia A. Carney & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & R. Edward Hendrick & Carl J. D’Orsi & Jessica S. Fosse & Linn Abraham & Joann G. Elmore - 290-300 Can Patients Interpret Health Information? An Assessment of the Medical Data Interpretation Test
by Lisa M. Schwartz & Steven Woloshin & H. Gilbert Welch - 301-307 Decreased Use of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Decision Aid with Individualized Risk Information
by Pamela B. Peele & Laura A. Siminoff & Ying Xu & Peter M. Ravdin - 308-320 Is Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Bacterial Endocarditis Cost-Effective?
by Zia Agha & Richard P. Lofgren & Jerome V. VanRuiswyk - 321-329 Optimal Allocation of Testing Dollars: The Example of HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral
by Rochelle P. Walensky & Milton C. Weinstein & Heather E. Smith & Kenneth A. Freedberg & A. David Paltiel - 330-340 The Cost-Effectiveness of Raising the Legal Smoking Age in California
by Sajjad Ahmad - 341-347 How Much Does It Cost to Change the Behavior of Health Professionals? A Mathematical Model and an Application to Academic Detailing
by Afschin Gandjour & Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach - 348-349 Rewarding Extraordinary Inventions
by Dennis J. Mazur - 350-351 From Comparative Judgments to Absolute Scales
by Alan Schwartz
March 2005, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 146-146 The Importance of Cognitive Outcomes
by Lee Green - 147-148 Ubiquitous but Unfinished: Online Information Retrieval Systems
by William R. Hersh - 149-157 The Value of Diagnostic Information to Patients with Chest Pain Suggestive of Coronary Artery Disease
by Alvin I. Mushlin & Lisa M. Kern & Mary Paris & David R. Lambert & Geoffrey Williams - 158-167 Invariance and Inconsistency in Utility Ratings
by Dena M. Bravata & Lorene M. Nelson & Alan M. Garber & Mary K. Goldstein - 168-177 A New Logistic Regression Approach for the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test Results
by A. Cecile J. W. Janssens & Yazhong Deng & Gerard J. J. M. Borsboom & Marinus J. C. Eijkemans & J. Dik. F. Habbema & Ewout W. Steyerberg - 178-185 The Impact of an Online Evidence System on Confidence in Decision Making in a Controlled Setting
by Johanna I. Westbrook & A. Sophie Gosling & Enrico W. Coiera - 186-198 Options for Handling Missing Data in the Health Utilities Index Mark 3
by Arash Naeim & Emmett B. Keeler & Carol M. Mangione - 199-209 A Clinically Based Discrete-Event Simulation of End-Stage Liver Disease and the Organ Allocation Process
by Steven M. Shechter & Cindy L. Bryce & Oguzhan Alagoz & Jennifer E. Kreke & James E. Stahl & Andrew J. Schaefer & Derek C. Angus & Mark S. Roberts - 210-221 Withholding or Starting Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Dementia and Pneumonia: Prediction of Mortality with Physicians’ Judgment of Illness Severity and with Specific Prognostic Models
by Jenny T. van der Steen & Marcel E. Ooms & Gerrit van der Wal & Miel W. Ribbe - 222-228 Medical Decision Making with Incomplete Evidence—Choosing a Platelet Glycoprotein IIbIIIa Receptor Inhibitor for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
by James M. Brophy & Lawrence Joseph - 229-229 Jury Rationality
by Dennis J. Mazur - 230-230 Abstracts from the 2004 Annual SMDM Meeting: Medical Decision Making on the Web
by Mark Helfand & Kathryn Pyle Krages
January 2005, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 1-60 Abstracts from the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by N/A - 5-7 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 8-10 A Look Back...and Ahead
by Mark Helfand - 11-19 Optimal Statistical Decisions for Hospital Report Cards
by Peter C. Austin & Geoffrey M. Anderson - 20-34 Is Risk-Adjustor Selection More Important Than Statistical Approach for Provider Profiling? Asthma as an Example
by I-Chan Huang & Francesca Dominici & Constantine Frangakis & Gregory B. Diette & Cheryl L. Damberg & Albert W. Wu - 35-46 A Methodological Framework for Optimally Reorganizing Liver Transplant Regions
by James E. Stahl & Nan Kong & Steven M. Shechter & Andrew J. Schaefer & Mark S. Roberts - 47-55 Using Benefit Harm Tradeoffs to Estimate Sufficiently Important Difference: The Case of the Common Cold
by Bruce Barrett & Roger Brown & Marlon Mundt & Leota Dye & Jennifer Alt & Nasia Safdar & Rob Maberry - 56-70 Health State Utilities for Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Based on Parent Preferences in the United Kingdom
by Kristina Secnik & Louis S. Matza & Suzi Cottrell & Eric Edgell & Dominic Tilden & Sally Mannix - 71-80 Impact of Generic Drug Entry on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Ya-Chen Tina Shih & Shu Han & Scott B. Cantor - 81-81 Clinical Decision-Making Rounds at the Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospital
by Stephen G. Pauker - 82-94 DEALE-ing with Lung Cancer and Heart Failure
by Manu Sondhi & John R. Goffin & Brian J. Cohen & John B. Wong & Stephen G. Pauker - 95-96 Emotions, Decisions, and the Limits of Rationality: Symposium Introduction
by Peter A. Ubel - 96-105 Projection Bias in Medical Decision Making
by George Loewenstein - 105-112 When Thinking Feels Difficult: Meta-Cognitive Experiences in Judgment and Decision Making
by Norbert Schwarz - 112-118 The Role of Stereotypes in Decision-Making Processes
by Galen V. Bodenhausen - 119-126 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making Presidential Address: Connections
by Scott B. Cantor - 127-128 Personal Information
by Dennis J. Mazur - 129-129 SMDM Trustees Roster
by N/A - 130-130 Call for Nominations for SMDM Officers
by N/A - 131-132 Call for Nominations for SMDM Awards
by N/A - 133-135 Information for Authors
by N/A
November 2004, Volume 24, Issue 6
- 557-560 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 561-572 Reader Variability in Mammography and Its Implications for Expected Utility over the Population of Readers and Cases
by Robert F. Wagner & Craig A. Beam & Sergey V. Beiden - 573-583 The Application of the Heuristic-Systematic Processing Model to Treatment Decision Making about Prostate Cancer
by Suzanne K. Steginga & Stefano Occhipinti - 584-601 A Cost-Utility Analysis of Neonatal Circumcision
by Robert S. Van Howe - 602-613 Decision Making in a Multidisciplinary Cancer Team: Does Team Discussion Result in Better Quality Decisions?
by Frank Kee & Tracy Owen & Ruth Leathem - 614-624 An Exploration of Relative Health Stock in Advanced Cancer Patients
by Darrell J. Gaskin & Kevin P. Weinfurt & Liana D. Castel & Venita DePuy & Yun Li & Andrew Balshem & Al Benson & Caroline B. Burnett & Sandra Corbett & John Marshall & Elyse Slater & Daniel P. Sulmasy & David Van Echo & Neal J. Meropol & Kevin A. Schulman - 625-633 A Comparison of 3 Valuation Methods for Temporary Health States in Patients Treated with Oral Anticoagulants
by Mirjam Locadia & Peep F. M. Stalmeier & Frans J. Oort & Martin H. Prins & Mirjam A. G. Sprangers & Patrick M. M. Bossuyt - 634-653 A Bayesian Approach to Net Health Benefits: An Illustration and Application to Modeling HIV Prevention
by Ana P. Johnson-Masotti & Purushottam W. Laud & Raymond G. Hoffmann & Matthew J. Hayat & Steven D. Pinkerton - 654-658 On Uncertainty in Medical Testing
by Robert L. Winkler & James E. Smith - 659-669 Combining Correlated Diagnostic Tests: Application to Neuropathologic Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
by Chengjie Xiong & Daniel W. McKeel Jr & J. Philip Miller & John C. Morris - 670-680 Alternative Tree-Structured Survival Analysis Based on Variance of Survival Time
by Hua Jin & Ying Lu & Kaite Stone & Dennis M. Black - 681-686 Theory about Heuristic Strategies Based on Verbal Protocol Analysis: The Emperor Needs a Shave
by Robert M. Hamm - 687-687 Response to Commentary
by Suzanne K. Steginga & Stefano Occhipinti - 688-692 Neonatal Circumcision: Cost-Effective Preventive Measure or “the Unkindest Cut of All†?
by Darryl T. Gray - 693-693 Michael M. Ravitch
by Arthur S. Elstein - 694-694 Societal Values and Information Privacy
by Dennis J. Mazur - 695-696 Index to Abstract Authors
by N/A - 697-703 INDEX to MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
by N/A - 704-706 Information for Authors
by N/A
October 2004, Volume 24, Issue 5
- 457-460 Clinical Applications
by N/A - 461-471 Reorganizing the System of Care Surrounding Laparoscopic Surgery: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Discrete-Event Simulation
by James E. Stahl & David Rattner & Richard Wiklund & Jessica Lester & Molly Beinfeld & G. Scott Gazelle - 472-485 Pramipexole v. Levodopa as Initial Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Clinical-Economic Trial
by Katia Noyes & Andrew W. Dick & Robert G. Holloway - 486-492 The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Programs Using Single and Multiple Birth Cohort Simulations: A Comparison Using a Model of Cervical Cancer
by Sarah Dewilde & Rob Anderson - 493-503 A Comparison of Different Strategies to Collect Standard Gamble Utilities
by Thomas Hammerschmidt & Hans-Peter Zeitler & Markus Gulich & Reiner Leidl - 504-510 Preference Assessment Method Affects Decision-Analytic Recommendations: A Prostate Cancer Treatment Example
by Elena B. Elkin & Mark E. Cowen & Daniel Cahill & Mary Steffel & Michael W. Kattan - 511-517 Correcting Biases in Standard Gamble and Time Tradeoff Utilities
by Sylvie M. C. van Osch & Peter P. Wakker & Wilbert B. van den Hout & Anne M. Stiggelbout - 518-524 Medical and Nonmedical Determinants of Decision Making about Potentially Life-Prolonging Interventions
by Agnes van der Heide & Astrid Vrakking & Hans van Delden & Caspar Looman & Paul van der Maas - 525-533 Group Sequential Design for Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy Studies: Implications and Guidelines for Practitioners
by Madhu Mazumdar - 534-535 To Err Is Human
by Stephen D. Roberts - 536-537 The Implications of Differing Methods of Utility Assessment for Patient-Specific Decision-Analytic Tools
by Michael S. Yi - 538-544 Unfinished Symphony: A Tribute to the Life and Career of Bernie O’Brien (1959–2004)
by Andrew Briggs & Martin Buxton & Mike Drummond & Ron Goeree & Mark J. Sculpher & Andrew R. Willan - 545-545 Negligence and Human Subjects Research
by Dennis J. Mazur - 546-547 Book Review
by Cathy J. Bradley - 548-550 Information for Authors
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August 2004, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 327-329 Highlights Of This Issue
by N/A - 330-350 A Single Mathematical Model Predicts Physicians’ Recommendations and Postmenopausal Women’s Decisions to Participate in a Clinical Trial to Prevent Breast Cancer or Coronary Heart Disease
by Clairice T. Veit - 351-358 Refining Estimates of Major Depression Incidence and Episode Duration in Canada Using a Monte Carlo Markov Model
by Scott B. Patten & Robert C. Lee - 359-366 Decision Aids for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Applicability across Race and Education
by David R. Rovner & Celia E. Wills & Vence Bonham & Gilbert Williams & Janet Lillie & Karen Kelly-Blake & Mark V. Williams & Margaret Holmes-Rovner - 367-378 Positive Association between Current Health and Health Values for Hypothetical Disease States
by Joseph T. King Jr. & Joel Tsevat & Mark S. Roberts - 379-385 Women’s Preferences for Doctor’s Involvement in Decisions about Mammography Screening
by Eric Chamot & Agathe Charvet & Thomas V. Perneger - 386-398 Classification Algorithms for Hip Fracture Prediction Based on Recursive Partitioning Methods
by Hua Jin & Ying Lu & Steven T. Harris & Dennis M. Black & Katie Stone & Marc C. Hochberg & Harry K. Genant - 399-407 Exploration of a Bayesian Updating Methodology to Monitor the Safety of Interventional Cardiovascular Procedures
by Frederic S. Resnic & Kelly H. Zou & Daihung V. Do & George Apostolakis & Lucila Ohno-Machado - 408-420 Presidential Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Society for Medical Decision Making
by Arthur S. Elstein & Dennis G. Fryback & Milton C. Weinstein & Stephen G. Pauker & Margaret Holmes-Rovner & Mark J. Young & Michael J. Barry & Mark H. Eckman & M. G. Myriam Hunink & Joel Tsevat & John B. Wong - 421-421 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 422-446 Abstracts from the European Society for Medical Decision Making Meeting Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 7-8, 2004
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June 2004, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 243-246 Highlights of this Issue
by Peter Franks & Erica I. Lubetkin & Marthe R. Gold & Daniel J. Tancredi & Haomiao Jia & Patricia A. Carney & Joann G. Elmore & Linn A. Abraham & Martha S. Gerrity & R. Edward Hendrick & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & Gary R. Cutter & Steven P. Poplack & Carl J. D’Orsie & Andrea D. Gurmankin & Jonathan Baron & Katrina Armstrong & Adam Oliver & David M. Kent & A. Mark Fendrick & Kenneth M. Langa & Fumie Yokota & Kimberly M. Thompson & Charles F. Babbs & Guangyong Zou - 247-254 Mapping the SF-12 to the EuroQol EQ-5D Index in a National US Sample
by Peter Franks & Erica I. Lubetkin & Marthe R. Gold & Daniel J. Tancredi & Haomiao Jia - 255-264 Radiologist Uncertainty and the Interpretation of Screening
by Patricia A. Carney & Joann G. Elmore & Linn A. Abraham & Martha S. Gerrity & R. Edward Hendrick & Stephen H. Taplin & William E. Barlow & Gary R. Cutter & Steven P. Poplack & Carl J. D’Orsi - 265-271 The Effect of Numerical Statements of Risk on Trust and Comfort with Hypothetical Physician Risk Communication
by Andrea D. Gurmankin & Jonathan Baron & Katrina Armstrong - 272-280 Prioritizing Health Care: Is “Health†Always an Appropriate Maximand?
by Adam Oliver - 281-286 New and Dis-Improved: On the Evaluation and Use of Less Effective, Less Expensive Medical Interventions
by David M. Kent & A. Mark Fendrick & Kenneth M. Langa - 287-298 Value of Information Literature Analysis: A Review of Applications in Health Risk Management
by Fumie Yokota & Kimberly M. Thompson - 299-312 Meta-Analysis of 2-Treatment Clinical Trials Including Both Continuous and Dichotomous Results
by Charles F. Babbs - 313-318 From Diagnostic Accuracy to Accurate Diagnosis: Interpreting a Test Result with Confidence
by Guangyong Zou - 319-319 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 320-320 Erratum
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March 2004, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 117-121 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 122-130 Influence of Clinical and Economical Factors on the Expert Rating of Appropriateness of Preoperative Use of Recombinant Erythropoietin in Elective Orthopedic Surgery Patients
by Patrick Taffé & Bernard Burnand & Vincent Wietlisbach & John-Paul Vader - 131-141 Parametric Mean Survival Time Analysis in Gastric Cancer Patients
by Shunzo Maetani & Toshifusa Nakajima & Toshikuni Nishikawa - 142-148 “Is 28% Good or Bad?†Evaluability and Preference Reversals in Health Care Decisions
by Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher & Angela Fagerlin & Peter A. Ubel - 149-159 Avoidance of Anticipated Regret: The Ordering of Prostate-Specific Antigen Tests
by Paul Clay Sorum & Etienne Mullet & Junseop Shim & Sylvie Bonnin-Scaon & Gérard Chasseigne & Joël Cogneau - 160-169 Predicting EuroQoL EQ-5D Preference Scores from the SF-12 Health Survey in a Nationally Representative Sample
by William F. Lawrence & John A. Fleishman - 170-180 The Validity of Person Tradeoff Measurements: Randomized Trial of Computer Elicitation Versus Face-to-Face Interview
by Laura J. Damschroder & Jonathan Baron & John C. Hershey & David A. Asch & Christopher Jepson & Peter A. Ubel - 181-191 HIV Prevention, Cost-Utility Analysis, and Race/Ethnicity: Methodological Considerations and Recommendations
by David R. Holtgrave - 192-206 A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Information Technologies and Decision Support Systems for Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response
by Dena M. Bravata & Kathryn M. McDonald & Herbert Szeto & Wendy M. Smith & Chara Rydzak & Douglas K. Owens - 207-227 Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations in Medical Decision Modeling
by A. E. Ades & G. Lu & K. Claxton - 228-231 The Appropriateness Method
by Paul Shekelle - 232-234 Is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Unfair?
by Louise B. Russell - 235-235 Negligence Law
by Dennis J. Mazur - 236-237 The State of the Field
by Alan Schwartz
January 2004, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 5-8 Highlights of This Issue
by N/A - 9-19 Cost-Effectiveness of Sibutramine in the Treatment of Obesity
by Emma Warren & Alan Brennan & Ron Akehurst - 20-29 Estimating the Prognosis of Hepatitis C Patients Infected by Transfusion in Canada between 1986 and 1990
by Murray Krahn & John B. Wong & Jenny Heathcote & Linda Scully & Leonard Seeff - 30-39 Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Vertical HIV Transmission from Pregnant Women Who Have Not Received Prenatal Care
by Joseph M. Mrus & Joel Tsevat - 40-52 Health State Utilities in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Patients with Heartburn: A Study in Germany and Sweden
by Bernt Kartman & Gudrun Gatz & Magnus Johannesson - 53-60 A Comparison of Narrative and Table Formats for Presenting Hypothetical Health States to Patients with Gastrointestinal or Pulmonary Disease
by Holger J. Schünemann & Elisabeth Ståhl & Peggy Austin & Elie Akl & David Armstrong & Gordon H. Guyatt - 61-63 The Relationship between the Visual Analog Scale and the SF-36 Scales in the General Population: An Update
by Amir Shmueli - 64-79 Alternative Medicine or “Alternative†Patients: A Qualitative Study of Patient-Oriented Decision-Making Processes with Respect to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by Opher Caspi & Mary Koithan & Michael W. Criddle - 80-88 The GAME Estimate of Reduced Life Expectancy
by Wilbert B. van den Hout - 89-100 Gaussian Process Modeling in Conjunction with Individual Patient Simulation Modeling: A Case Study Describing the Calculation of Cost-Effectiveness Ratios for the Treatment of Established Osteoporosis
by M. D. Stevenson & J. Oakley & J. B. Chilcott - 101-101 Negligence Law
by Dennis J. Mazur - 102-104 Heterogeneity Bias: The Difference between Adjusted and Unadjusted Effects
by Ewout W. Steyerberg & Marinus J. C. Eijkemans
November 2003, Volume 23, Issue 6
- 463-470 What Is the Least Costly Strategy to Evaluate Cervical Abnormalities in Rural Women? Comparing Telemedicine, Local Practitioners, and Expert Physicians
by David M. Bishai & Daron G. Ferris & Mark S. Litaker - 471-479 Men with Prostate Cancer: Making Decisions about Complementary/Alternative Medicine
by Heather Boon & Judith Belle Brown & Alan Gavin & Kathleen Westlake - 480-488 Paper Standard Gamble: The Reliability of a Paper Questionnaire to Assess Utility
by Benjamin Littenberg & Steven Partilo & Anita Licata & Michael W. Kattan - 489-501 A Comparison of the Health Utilities Indices Mark 2 and Mark 3 in Type 2 Diabetes
by Sheri L. Maddigan & David H. Feeny & Jeffrey A. Johnson - 502-510 Attitudes, Sociodemographic Characteristics, and Actual End-of-Life Decisions of Physicians in Flanders, Belgium
by F. Mortier & J. Bilsen & R. H. Vander Stichele & J. Bernheim & L. Deliens - 511-517 Variations in Risk Attitude across Race, Gender, and Education
by Allison B. Rosen & Jerry S. Tsai & Stephen M. Downs - 518-525 When Is It Worth Introducing a Quality Improvement Program? A Mathematical Model
by Afschin Gandjour & Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach - 526-539 The Use of Fixed-and Random-Effects Models for Classifying Hospitals as Mortality Outliers: A Monte Carlo Assessment
by Peter C. Austin & David A. Alter & Jack V. Tu - 540-541 Book Review
by Cecile Janssens - 542-543 Letter to the Editor
by Paul F. M. Krabbe & Eddy M. M. Adang & Peep F. M. Stalmeier & Bruce R. Schackman & John Brazier & Milton C. Weinstein
November 2003, Volume 23, Issue 6_suppl
- 544-550 Post Presentations, Sunday
by N/A - 551-557 Poster Presentations, Monday
by N/A - 558-564 Oral Presentations, Monday
by N/A - 565-571 Poster Presentations, Tuesday
by N/A - 572-577 Oral Presentations, Tuesday
by N/A - 578-583 Poster Presentations, Wednesday
by N/A - 584-585 Oral Presentations, Wednesday
by N/A - 586-589 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making Abstract Author Index
by N/A
September 2003, Volume 23, Issue 5
- 357-360 Highlights Of This Issue
by N/A - 361-368 Use of Regression Modeling to Simulate Patient-Specific Decision Analysis for Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
by Joseph A. Johnston & Mark H. Eckman - 369-378 Public Response to Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Clinical Decisions
by Mary Catherine Beach & David A. Asch & Christopher Jepson & John C. Hershey & Tara Mohr & Stacey McMorrow & Peter A. Ubel - 379-386 The Impact of Ignoring Population Heterogeneity when Markov Models are Used in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Gregory S. Zaric - 387-405 Risk Adjustment for People with Chronic Conditions in Private Sector Health Plans
by Tami L. Mark & Ronald J. Ozminkowski & Adele Kirk & Susan L. Ettner & John Drabek - 406-413 A Priori Risk and Optimal Test Accuracy in Prenatal Diagnostics
by Stefan Felder & Andreas Werblow & Bernt-Peter Robra - 414-421 Utilities Derived from Visual Analog Scale Scores in Patients with HIV/AIDS
by Joseph M. Mrus & Michael S. Yi & Kenneth A. Freedberg & Albert W. Wu & Robert Zackin & Heather Gorski & Joel Tsevat - 422-434 Effect of Assessment Method on the Discrepancy between Judgments of Health Disorders People have and do not have: A Web Study
by Jonathan Baron & David A. Asch & Angela Fagerlin & Christopher Jepson & George Loewenstein & Jason Riis & Margaret G. Stineman & Peter A. Ubel - 435-440 Validity of Standard Gamble Utilities as Measured by Transplant Readiness in Lung Transplant Candidates
by Lianne G. Singer & James Theodore & Michael K. Gould - 441-448 The Use of Gene Tests to Detect Hereditary Predisposition to Chronic Disease: Is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Relevant?
by Nananda F. Col - 449-451 Book Reviews
by J. Hilden - 452-453 Book Reviews
by Donald E. Stanley
July 2003, Volume 23, Issue 4
- 275-280 A New Model of Medical Decisions: Exploring the Limits of Shared Decision Making
by Simon N. Whitney - 281-292 Validation of a Decision Regret Scale
by Jamie C. Brehaut & Annette M. O'Connor & Timothy J. Wood & Thomas F. Hack & Laura Siminoff & Elisa Gordon & Deb Feldman-Stewart - 293-300 Fast and Frugal Models of Clinical Judgment in Novice and Expert Physicians
by Frank Kee & John Jenkins & Seana McIlwaine & Chris Patterson & Sloan Harper & Michael Shields - 301-313 Why do Primary Care Physicians in the United States and France Order Prostate-Specific Antigen Tests for Asymptomatic Patients?
by Paul Clay Sorum & Junseop Shim & Gérard Chasseigne & Sylvie Bonnin-Scaon & Joël Cogneau & Etienne Mullet - 314-322 Preference-Based Measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) in Children with Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSKDs)
by H. I. Brunner & D. Maker & B. Grundland & N. L. Young & V. Blanchette & A-M. Stain & B. M. Feldman - 323-334 Comparison of Directly Elicited Preferences to Preferences Derived from the SF-36 in Adults with Asthma
by Todd A. Lee & William Hollingworth & Sean D. Sullivan - 335-340 Switching Therapy in Health Economics Trials: Confronting the Confusion
by George W. Torrance & Michael F. Drummond & Valery Walker - 341-350 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis for Decision Trees with Multiple Branches: Use of the Dirichlet Distribution in a Bayesian Framework
by Andrew H. Briggs & A. E. Ades & Martin J. Price - 351-351 Electronic Submission for Medical Decision Making
by Frank A. Sonnenberg
May 2003, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 191-193 Highlights of this Issue
by N/A - 194-211 Rationing Decisions and Individual Responsibility for Illness: Are all Lives Equal?
by Eve Wittenberg & Sue J. Goldie & Baruch Fischhoff & John D. Graham - 212-225 “Perfect Health†versus “Disease Free†: The Impact of Anchor Point Choice on the Measurement of Preferences and the Calculation of Disease-Specific Disutilities
by Joseph T. King Jr. & Mindi A. Styn & Joel Tsevat & Mark S. Roberts - 226-231 Unexplained Complaints in General Practice: Prevalence, Patients' Expectations, and Professionals' Test-Ordering Behavior
by Trudy van der Weijden & Monique van Velsen & Geert-Jan Dinant & Cathelijne M. van Hasselt & Richard Grol - 232-241 A Potential Error in Evaluating Cancer Screening: A Comparison of 2 Approaches for Modeling Underlying Disease Progression
by Sue J. Goldie & Karen M. Kuntz - 242-251 Properties of the Cumulative Risk-Adjusted Mortality (CRAM) Chart, Including the Number of Deaths Before a Doubling of the Death Rate is Detected
by Charalambos Sismanidis & Martin Bland & Jan Poloniecki - 252-264 A Bayesian Approach to Aid in Formulary Decision Making: Incorporating Institution-Specific Cost-Effectiveness Data with Clinical Trial Results
by Shelby D. Reed & Peter W. Dillingham & Andrew H. Briggs & David L. Veenstra & Sean D. Sullivan - 265-266 Book Review
by Roger Luckmann
March 2003, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 109-111 Highlights Of This Issue
by N/A - 112-121 Prediction of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Using Artificial Neural Networks
by Paul S. Heckerling & Ben S. Gerber & Thomas G. Tape & Robert S. Wigton - 122-130 Visual Acuity following Cataract Surgeries in Relation to Preoperative Appropriateness Ratings
by Joanne K. Tobacman & Bridget Zimmerman & Paul Lee & Lee Hilborne & Hansjoerg Kolder & Robert H. Brook - 131-139 The Relationship between Treatment Objectives and Practice Patterns in the Management of Urinary Tract Infections
by Stephen D. Flach & J. Craig Longenecker & Thomas G. Tape & Teresa J. Bryan & Connie Parenti & Robert S. Wigton - 140-149 A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Measurement Properties of 2 Direct Preference Instruments Administered with and without Hypothetical Marker States
by Holger J. Schünemann & Lauren Griffith & David Stubbing & Roger Goldstein & Gordon H. Guyatt - 150-159 Eliciting Willingness to Pay: Comparing Closed-Ended with Open-Ended and Payment Scale Formats
by Emma J. Frew & David K. Whynes & Jane L. Wolstenholme - 160-166 The Area under an ROC Curve with Limited Information
by Wilbert B. van den Hout - 167-176 Surgical Decisions for Early Stage, Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Which Racially Sensitive Perceptions of Cancer Are Likely to Explain Racial Variation in Surgery?
by Samuel Cykert & Nancy Phifer - 177-179 Performance of the RAND Appropriateness Criteria
by Amber E. Barnato & Alan M. Garber - 180-181 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 182-183 Book Review: Regression Modeling Strategies: With Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis. By Frank E. Harrell Jr. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, 582 pages
by Mike Kattan - 184-185 Book Review: Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services. 2nd ed. Edited by Denise M. Oleske. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001, 401 pages
by Donald E. Stanley
January 2003, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 9-20 Long-Term HIV/AIDS Survival Estimation in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era
by Joseph T. King Jr. & Amy C. Justice & Mark S. Roberts & Chung-Chou H. Chang & Jennifer S. Fusco - 21-30 A Comparison of Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Methods to Determine the Performance of a Point of Care Test for Helicobacter pylori in the Office Setting
by Brendan C. Delaney & Roger L. Holder & Teresa F. Allan & Joyce E. Kenkre & F. D. Richard Hobbs - 31-37 The Reliability of Assessing the Appropriateness of Requested Diagnostic Tests
by Rianne Bindels & Arie Hasman & Jan W. J. van Wersch & Peter Pop & Ron A. G. Winkens - 38-53 Use of Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods to Model Cost-of-Illness Data
by Nicola J. Cooper & Alex J. Sutton & Miranda Mugford & Keith R. Abrams - 54-66 Model-Based Methodology for Analyzing Incomplete Quality-of-Life Data and Integrating Them into the Q-Twist Framework
by N. Mounier & C. Ferme & H. Flechtner & M. M. Henry-Amar & E. Lepage - 67-75 Toward Improved Methods for Measurement of Utility: Automated Repair of Errors in Elicitations
by Leslie A. Lenert & Ann Sturley & Marcia Rupnow - 76-82 Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Programs: The Impact of Herd-Immunity
by M. Brisson & W. J. Edmunds - 83-87 Smdm Presidential Address: Hearsay or Heresy—Are Health Decision Scientists Too Left Brained?
by Joel Tsevat - 88-89 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 90-91 Thinking and Deciding. 3rd ed. By Jonathan Baron. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2001, 608 pages, index, paperback, $32.00, ISBN: 0-521-65972-8
by Arthur S. Elstein