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October 2001, Volume 21, Issue 5
- 382-390 Assessing Values for Health: Numeracy Matters
by Steven Woloshin & Lisa M. Schwartz & Megan Moncur & Sherine Gabriel & Anna N. A. Tosteson - 391-408 Optimal Investment in a Portfolio of HIV Prevention Programs
by Gregory S. Zaric & Margaret L. Brandeau - 409-417 Parametric Three-Way Receiver Operating Characteristic Surface Analysis Using Mathematica
by Paul S. Heckerling - 419-420 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur
August 2001, Volume 21, Issue 4
- 257-266 Dynamic Analysis of Liver Allocation Policies
by David H. Howard - 267-277 In Search of Tools to Aid Logical Thinking and Communicating about Medical Decision Making
by M. G. Myriam Hunink - 278-287 Revising a Priority List Based on Cost-Effectiveness
by Jonathan Baron & Peter A. Ubel - 288-294 An Off-the-Shelf Help List
by Chaim M. Bell & Richard H. Chapman & Patricia W. Stone & Eileen A. Sandberg & Peter J. Neumann - 295-306 Stability of Patients’ Preferences for Chemotherapy
by Sylvia J. T. Jansen & Job Kievit & Marianne A. Nooij & Anne M. Stiggelbout - 307-323 Does Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Make a Difference?
by Michael D. Hagen & Alan M. Garber & Sue J. Goldie & Jennifer Elston Lafata & Jeanne Mandelblatt & David Meltzer & Peter Neumann & Joanna E. Siegel & Harold C. Sox Jr. & Joel Tsevat - 324-328 Rationing versus Rationality
by Terri Jackson - 329-334 Visual Analog Scales
by George W. Torrance & David Feeny & William Furlong - 335-336 Law and Ethics
by N/A
May 2001, Volume 21, Issue 3
- 95-109 Erratum
by N/A - 163-169 Risk-Adjusted Monitoring of Binary Surgical Outcomes
by Stefan H. Steiner & Richard J. Cook & Vern T. Farewell - 170-179 Decision-Case Mix Model for Analyzing Variation in Cesarean Rates
by Leslie Eldenburg & William S. Waller - 180-189 Preference for Equity As a Framing Effect
by Peter A. Ubel & Jonathan Baron & David A. Asch - 190-199 Do Nonpatients Underestimate the Quality of Life Associated with Chronic Health Conditions because of a Focusing Illusion?
by Peter A. Ubel & George Loewenstein & John Hershey & Jonathan Baron & Tara Mohr & David A. Asch & Christopher Jepson - 200-207 What Should Be Reported in a Methods Section on Utility Assessment?
by Peep F. M. Stalmeier & M. K. Goldstein & A. M. Holmes & L. Lenert & J. Miyamoto & A. M. Stiggelbout & G. W. Torrance & J. Tsevat - 208-218 Choice-Matching Preference Reversals in Health Outcome Assessments
by Walton Sumner II & Robert F. Nease Jr. - 219-230 Bayesian Assessment of Sample Size for Clinical Trials of Cost-Effectiveness
by Anthony O’Hagan & John W. Stevens - 231-240 Women’s Views on Breast Cancer Risk and Screening Mammography
by E. Silverman & S. Woloshin & L. M. Schwartz & S. J. Byram & H. G. Welch & B. Fischhoff - 241-247 Patient-Centered Decision Making
by Mark H. Eckman - 248-249 Industrial Engineering and the Practice of Medicine
by Mark S. Roberts - 250-251 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 252-253 Book Review: Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology and Applications
by Amiram Gafni
April 2001, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 87-96 Reanalysis of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm Management
by Noriaki Aoki & J. Robert Beck & Takao Kitahara & Sadayoshi Ohbu & Kazui Soma & Takashi Ohwada & Richard W. Cone & Tsuguya Fukui - 97-104 Utility Elicitation Using Single-Item Questions Compared with a Computerized Interview
by Leslie A. Lenert & Cathy D. Sherbourne & Valerie Reyna - 105-112 Evaluating Quality-Adjusted Life Years
by Michael B. Nichol & Nishan Sengupta & Denise R. Globe - 113-121 Lack of Congruence in the Ratings of Patients’ Health Status by Patients and Their Physicians
by Maria E. Suarez-Almazor & Barbara Conner-Spady & Chris J. Kendall & Anthony S. Russell & Kenneth Skeith - 122-132 Preferences for Fractures and Other Glucocorticoid-Associated Adverse Effects among Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
by Linda A. Merlino & Indranil Bagchi & Thomas N. Taylor & Paul Utrie & Elizabeth Chrischilles & Walton Sumner II & Amy Mudano & Kenneth G. Saag - 133-140 Measuring Patients’ Medical Care Preferences: Care Seeking versus Self-Treating
by Julie M. Ganther & Joseph B. Wiederholt & David H. Kreling - 141-149 The Role of Risk and Benefit Perception in Informed Consent for Surgery
by Andrew Lloyd & Paul Hayes & Peter R. F. Bell & A. Ross Naylor - 150-151 Clinical Decision Analysis
by James G. Dolan - 152-155 The Importance of Memory in Informed Consent for Surgical Risk
by Valerie F. Reyna & Allan J. Hamilton - 156-157 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 158-159 Book Review: Regression Analysis of Count Data
by Ramalingam Shanmugam
February 2001, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 1-6 Randomized Trial of a Patient Decision Aid for Choice of Surgical Treatment for Breast Cancer
by Vivek Goel & Carol A. Sawka & Elaine C. Thiel & Elaine H. Gort & Annette M. O’Connor - 7-16 A Comparison of United Kingdom and Spanish General Population Time Trade-off Values for EQ-5D Health States
by Xavier Badia & Montserrat Roset & Michael Herdman & Paul Kind - 17-27 Visual Analog Scales, Standard Gambles, and Relative Risk Aversion
by Angela Robinson & Graham Loomes & Michael Jones-Lee - 28-36 Factors Influencing Physicians’ Judgments of Adherence and Treatment Decisions for Patients with HIV Disease
by Laura M. Bogart & Sheryl L. Catz & Jeffrey A. Kelly & Eric G. Benotsch - 37-44 General Performance on a Numeracy Scale among Highly Educated Samples
by Isaac M. Lipkus & Greg Samsa & Barbara K. Rimer - 45-56 Prognostic Modeling with Logistic Regression Analysis
by Ewout W. Steyerberg & Marinus J. C. Eijkemans & Frank E. Harrell Jr & J. Dik F. Habbema - 57-59 Health Values and Prospect Theory
by Diana Stratmann-Schoene & Thomas Klose - 60-68 The Inclusion of Patient Testimonials in Decision Aids
by Peter A. Ubel & Christopher Jepson & Jonathan Baron - 69-70 A Look Back—and Ahead
by Frank A. Sonnenberg - 71-73 Reflections on the Beginnings and Future of Medical Decision Making
by Dennis G. Fryback - 73-75 Medical Decision Making: 20 Years of Advancing the Field
by J. Robert Beck - 75-77 The Society for Medical Decision Making at 21
by Arthur Elstein - 78-79 A Society for Medical Decision Making
by Stephen G. Pauker - 80-81 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 82-83 On Using the Standard Gamble to Determine Utilities for Uncertain Health States
by Moshe Leshno - 84-84 Cost-Value Analysis in Health Care: Making Sense of QALYs
by Peter A. Ubel
October 2000, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 369-376 Optimal Gestational Age and Birth-weight Cutoffs to Predict Neonatal Morbidity
by Michael A. Kohn & Caroline L. Vosti & Dennis Lezotte & Richard H. Jones - 377-390 Early Surgery versus Conservative Management of Dissecting Aneurysms of the Descending Thoracic Aorta
by David Katz & Douglas Payne & Stephen Pauker - 394-402 Patient Preference-based Treatment Thresholds and Recommendations
by Malcolm Man-Son-Hing & Andreas Laupacis & Annette M. O'Connor & Douglas Coyle & Renee Berquist & Finlay McAlister - 404-411 Decision Analysis with Cumulative Prospect Theory
by Ahmed M. Bayoumi & Donald A. Redelmeier - 413-422 A Comparison of HU12 and HU13 Utility Scores in Alzheimer's Disease
by Peter J. Neumann & Eileen A. Sandberg & Sally S. Araki & Karen M. Kuntz & David Feeny & Milton C. Weinstein - 423-429 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Preferences in Dutch Community-dwelling and Hospitalized Elderly People
by Annette H.M. van Mil & Rik C.J. van Klink & Christine Huntjens & Rudi G.J. Westendorp & Anne M. Stiggelbout & A.Edo Meinders & A. Margot Lagaay - 430-439 Meta-analysis of ROC Curves
by Arnold D.M. Kester & Frank Buntinx - 440-450 Electronic Trial Banks: A Complementary Method for Reporting Randomized Trials
by Ida Sim & Douglas K. Owens & Philip W. Lavori & Glenn D. Rennels - 451-458 A Comprehensive League Table of Cost-Utility Ratios and a Sub-table of "Panel-worthy" Studies
by Richard H. Chapman & Patricia W. Stone & Eileen A. Sandberg & Chaim Bell & Peter J. Neumann - 468-470 Determining the Area under the ROC Curve for a Binary Diagnostic Test
by Scott B. Cantor & Michael W. Kattan - 470-470 Correction
by N/A - 471-471 Book Review : The Ethical QALY: Ethical Issues in Health Care Resource Allocations. By ANDREW EDGAR, SAM SALEK, DAR-REN SHICKLE, and DAVID COHEN. Surrey, England: Euromed Communications, Ltd., 1998. $115 (hardcover
by N/A - 472-472 The Science of Proof and the Roles of Intuition
by N/A - 472-472 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 473-473 Psychology of Decision Aids
by Alan Schwartz - 474-474 A Heartfelt Thanks
by Frank A. Sonnenberg - 477-506 Abstracts
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July 2000, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 251-262 Prophylactic Mastectomy or Screening in Women Suspected to Have the BRCA1/2 Mutation
by Ivana Unic & Lia C.G. Verhoef & Peep F.M. Stalmeier & Willem A.J. Van Daal - 263-270 Population-based Time Preferences for Future Health Outcomes
by Theodore G. Ganiats & Richard T. Carson & Robert M. Hamm & Scott B. Cantor & Walton Sumner & Stephen J. Spann & Michael D. Hagen & Christopher Miller - 271-280 Modal Preferences Predict Elderly Patients' Life-sustaining Treatment Choices as Well as Patients' Chosen Surrogates Do
by William D. Smucker & Renate M. Houts & Joseph H. Danks & Peter H. Ditto & Angela Fagerlin & Kristen M. Coppola - 281-289 Comparison of Finnish and U.S.-based Visual Analog Scale Valuations of the EQ-5D Measure
by Jeffrey A. Johnson & Arto Ohinmaa & Bhisma Murti & Harri Sintonen & Stephen Joel Coons - 290-297 The Effectiveness of One-to-one Risk-communication Interventions in Health Care
by Adrian Edwards & Kerenza Hood & Elaine Matthews & Daphne Russell & Ian Russell & Jacqueline Barker & Michael Bloor & Philip Burnard & Judith Covey & Roisin Pill & Clare Wilkinson & Nigel Stott - 298-307 A New Scale for Assessing Perceptions of Chance
by Steven Woloshin & Lisa M. Schwartz & Stephanie Byram & Baruch Fischhoff & H. Gilbert Welch - 308-313 Beliefs about Breast Cancer Risk and Use of Postmenopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy
by Katrina Armstrong & Sharon Popik & Carmen Guerra & Peter A. Ubel - 314-322 Representing Both First- and Second-order Uncertainties by Monte Carlo Simulation for Groups of Patients
by Elkan F. Halpern & Milton C. Weinstein & Maria G.M. Hunink & G. Scott Gazelle - 323-331 Comparing Three-class Diagnostic Tests by Three-way ROC Analysis
by Stephan Dreiseitl & Lucila Ohno-Machado & Michael Binder - 332-342 Willingness to Pay for a Quality-adjusted Life Year
by Richard A. Hirth & Michael E. Chernew & Edward Miller & A. Mark Fendrick & William G. Weissert - 343-351 A Signal-detection Experiment Measuring the Effect of Computer-aided Detection on Radiologists' Performance
by Mitsuru Ikeda & Takeo Ishigaki & Kazunobu Yamauchi - 352-354 How Treatment Advances Affect Prevention's Cost-Effectiveness
by Louise B. Russell - 355-356 To the Editor
by Gerrit J. Jager & Johan L. Severens - 356-356 In reply
by Deb Feldman-Stewart & Michael D. Brundage - 357-358 Book Review : What Is Disease? By James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder. Louisville, KY: Humana Press, 1997, 372 pages. $49.50 (hardcover
by N/A - 358-359 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 359-360 Judgmental Psychology
by Alan Schwartz - 361-368 Netherlands Forum for Medical Decision Making
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April 2000, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 145-159 Design and Pilot Evaluation of a System to Develop Computer-based Site-specific Practice Guidelines from Decision Models
by Gillian D. Sanders & Robert F. Nease JR & Douglas K. Owens - 160-169 A Comparison of Human and Machine-based Predictions of Successful Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
by Allan Gottschalk & M. Chris Hyzer & Ralph T. Geer - 170-184 Using Localization Data from Image Interpretations to Improve Estimates of Performance Accuracy
by Richard G. Swensson - 186-193 Response Shift and Adaptation in Chronically III Patients
by Debby Postulart & Eddy M.M. Adang - 194-204 The Discrete-choice Willingness-to-pay Question Format in Health Economics:
by Richard D. Smith - 207-215 Income Effects of Reduced Health and Health Effects of Reduced Income:
by Mark J. Sculpher & Bernie J. O'Brien - 216-227 Withholding Information from Cancer Patients as a Physician's Decision under Risk
by Gideon Yaniv - 228-238 Perception of Quantitative Information for Treatment Decisions
by Deb Feldman-Stewart & Nancy Kocovski & Beth A. McConnell & Michael D. Brundage & William J. Mackillop - 239-242 Five Minutes with the Governor
by A. David Paltiel - 243-244 Artificial Neural Networks:
by John Griffith - 245-246 Book Reviews : Diagnostic Strategies for Common Medical Prob lems. Second edition. Edited by EDGAR R. BLACK, DONALD R. BORDLEY, THOMAS G. TAPE, and ROBERT J. PANZER. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Physicians, 1999, 674 pages, softcover, $45.00 (ACP members, $34.00
by N/A - 247-247 Book Reviews : The Internet and Healthcare. Second edition. Edited by Louis NICHOLSON. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press, 1999, 125 pages, softcover, $35.00
by N/A - 248-249 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 249-250 Judgmental Psychology
by Alan Schwartz
January 2000, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-6 Evaluation of an Internet-based Decision-support System for Applying the ATS/CDC Guidelines for Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy
by Charles S. Dayton & J. Scott Ferguson & Douglas B. Hornick & Michael W. Peterson - 7-19 What Questions Do Patients with Curable Prostate Cancer Want Answered?
by Deb Feldman-Stewart & Michael D. Brundage & Charles Hayter & Patti Groome & J. Curtis Nickel & Heather Downes & William J. Mackillop - 20-32 Decision Analyses for Prophylactic Replacement of the Björk-Shiley Convexo-concave Heart Valve:
by Ewout W. Steyerberg & Marjon Kallewaard & Yolanda Van Der Graaf & Lex A. Van Herwerden & J.Dik F. Habbema - 33-38 Does Clinical Error Contribute to Unnecessary Antibiotic Use?
by Warren J. McIsaac & Christopher C. Butler - 39-44 Further Explorations of Medical Decisions for Individuals and for Groups
by Michael L. Dekay & Carol A.E. Nickerson & Peter A. Ubel & John C. Hershey & Mark D. Spranca & David A. Asch - 45-50 Decision Making of Clinical Teams:
by Caryn Christensen & James R. Larson & Ann Abbott & Anthony Ardolino & Timothy Franz & Carol Pfeiffer - 51-61 Measuring Post-decision Satisfaction
by François Sainfort & Bridget C. Booske - 62-71 Unstable Preferences:
by Sylvia J.T. Jansen & Anne M. Stiggelbout & Peter P. Wakker & Marianne A. Nooij & Evert M. Noordijk & Job Kievit - 72-78 Can the Standard Gamble Be Used to Determine Utilities for Uncertain Health States?
by Erin D. Kennedy & Allan S. Detsky & Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas & Brenda I. O'Connor & Mark Varkul & A. Hillary Steinhart & Zane Cohen & Robin S. McLeod - 79-88 A Time-tradeoff Method for Cost—Efifectiveness Models Applied to Radiology
by J. Shannon Swan & Dennis G. Fryback & William F. Lawrence & François Sainfort & Mary Ellen Hagenauer & Dennis M. Heisey - 89-94 How HIV Treatment Advances Affect the Cost—Effectiveness of Prevention
by Steven D. Pinkerton & David R. Holtgrave - 95-103 Improved Statistical Classification Methods in Computerized Psychiatric Diagnosis
by Ioannis G. Vlachonikolis & Dimitris A. Karras & Manolis J. Hatzakis & Nicholas Paritsis - 104-111 An Assessment of Methods to Combine Published Survival Curves
by Craig C. Earle & George A. Wells - 112-127 Interpretive Review : Feasibility and Effects of Decision Aids
by Sjaak Molenaar & Mirjam A.G. Sprangers & Fenna C.E. Postma-Schuit & Emiel J. Th. Rutgers & Josje Noorlander & Joop Hendriks & Hanneke C.J.M. De Haes - 128-129 Taking the Helm
by Frank A. Sonnenberg - 130-131 Clinical Decision-support Systems:
by John Hornberger & Mary Kane Goldstein - 132-134 Information Disclosure and Beyond:
by Dennis J. Mazur - 135-136 Uncertainty in Decision Models Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness
by Bruce A. Craig & Michael A. Black & Peter P. Sendi - 136-137 Letter
by Mama G.M. Hunink & Aaron A. Stinnett & Theo Stijnen & Milton C. Weinstein - 138-138 Book Reviews : Handbook of Economic Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs. Edited by David R. Holtgrave. New York: Plenum Press, 1998, 281 pages, hardcover, $69.50
by N/A - 138-140 Book Reviews : The Logic of Medicine. Second edition. By Edmond A. Murphy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 511 pages, hardcover. $55.00
by N/A - 140-141 Mass Tort Class Actions Davis MJ. Toward the proper role for mass tort class actions. Oregon Law Review. 1998;77:157-233
by N/A - 141-141 Genetic Material and the Need for Sufficient Property Interests in One's Own Body Seeney EB [Note], Moore 10 years later—still trying to fill the gap: creating a personal property right in genetic material. 1998;32:1131-1191
by N/A - 142-143 Judgmental Psychology
by Alan Schwartz
October 1999, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 371-377 Inconsistencies in the "Societal Perspective" on Costs of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
by David Meltzer & Magnus Johannesson - 378-379 • Realistic Rigor in Cost-Effectiveness Methods
by Alan M. Garber - 379-380 • Improving the Panel's Recommendations
by Louise B. Russell - 381-382 • Theoretically Correct Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
by Milton C. Weinstein - 383-384 •On the Role of Theory in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis- A Response to Garber, Russell, and Weinstein
by David Meltzer & Magnus Johannesson - 385-393 Life Expectancy Estimation with Breast Cancer: Bias of the Declining Exponential Function and an Alternative to Its Use
by Robert R. Holland & Charles A. Ellis & Berta M. Geller & Dennis A. Plante & Roger H. Secker-Walker - 394-398 How Patients' Preferences for Risk Information Influence Treatment Choice in a Case of High Risk and High Therapeutic Uncertainty
by Dennis J. Mazur & David H. Hickam & Marcus D. Mazur - 399-410 Development of a Pediatric Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score
by Stéphane Leteurtre & Alain Martinot & Alain Duhamel & France Gauvin & Bruno Grandbastien & Thi Vu Nam & François Proulx & Jacques Lacroix & Francis Leclerc - 411-418 Medical Decision Making in the Choice of a Thrombolytic Agent for Acute Myocardial Infarction
by James M. Brophy & Lawrence Joseph & Pierre Theroux - 419-427 Evaluation of a Decision-support System for Preoperative Staging of Prostate Cancer
by Phei Lang ChangHANG & Li & TA Min Wang & Shih Tsung Huang & Ming Li Hsieh & Ke Hung Tsui - 428-434 How Should Effectiveness of Risk Communication to Aid Patients' Decisions Be Judged?
by Adrian Edwards & Glyn Elwyn - 435-447 The Discrepancy between Risky and Riskless Utilities
by Peep F.M. Stalmeier & Thom G.G. Bezembinder - 448-465 Motivating Mammography Adherence in Elderly Latinas
by Clairice T. Veit - 466-472 Do People Value Their Own Future Health Differently from Others' Future Health?
by John Cairns & Marjon Van Der Pol - 473-481 Effects on Preferences of Violations of Procedural Invariance
by Leslie A. Lenert & Jonathan R. Treadwell - 482-486 Whose Preferences Count?
by Paul Dolan - 487-498 Assessing Convergent Validity of Health-state Utilities Obtained Using Different Scaling Methods
by Carol A.E. Nickerson - 499-502 Sensitivity Analysis on a Chance Node with More Than Two Branches
by Peter P. Sendi & Robert T. Clemen - 503-504 Does DEALE-ing Stack the Deck?
by J. Robert Beck & Stephen G. Pauker - 504-505 A Call to Standardize Measures for Judging the Efficacy of Interventions to Aid Patients' Decision Making
by Annette M. O'Connor - 505-506 On the Role of Framing Effects in Assessment of Health-related Utilities
by Celia E. Wills - 507-508 Editing Medical Decision Making
by Arthur S. Elstein - 509-510 Book Reviews : Respecting Patient Autonomy. By BENJAMIN H. LEVI. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999, 222 pp, pa perback, $19.95
by N/A - 510-511 Book Reviews : The Economics of Health Reconsidered. By THOMAS RICE. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press, 1998, pp. 194, hardcover: $38.00
by N/A - 512-513 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 513-514 Judgmental Psychology
by Alan Schwartz - 517-544 Abstracts
by N/A - 517-544 Abstracts
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August 1999, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 221-229 Women's Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk
by Steven Woloshin & Lisa M. Schwartz & William C. Black & H. Gilbert Welch - 230-241 Evaluation of a Shared Decision Making Program for Women Suspected to Have a Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer
by Peep F.M. Stalmeier & Ivana J. Unic & Lia C.G. Verhoef & Willem A.J. Van Daal - 242-251 Incorporating the Time Dimension in Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer
by Ruth Etzioni & Margaret Pepe & Gary Longton & Chengcheng Hu & Gary Goodman - 252-264 Bayesian Approaches to Meta-analysi of ROC Curves
by Martin Hellmich & Keith R. Abrams & Alex J. Sutton - 265-275 A Comparison of Preference Assessment Instruments Used in a Clinical Trial
by Henry A. Glick & Daniel Polsky & Richard J. Willke & Kevin A. Schulman - 276-286 Correlations in Uncertainty Analysis for Medical Decision Making
by Antonio G. Chessa & Rommert Dekker & Bas Van Vliet & Ewout W. Steyerberg & J. Dik F. Habbema - 287-295 Use of Focus Groups to Identify Concerns about Dialysis
by Eric B. Bass & Mollie W. Jenckes & Nancy E. Fink & Kate A. Cagney & Albert W. Wu & John H. Sadler & Klemens B. Meyer & Andrews. Levey & Neil R. Powe - 296-306 Screening Blood Donations for Hepatitis C in Central Africa
by Nicole Cancré & Frédéric Bois & Gérard Grésenguet & Catherine Fretz & Jean-Jacques Fournel & Laurent Bélec - 307-314 Time Preferences and Preventive Health Behavior
by Gretchen B. Chapman & Elliot J. Coups - 315-323 Are More Options Always Better?
by Janet A. Schwartz & Gretchen B. Chapman - 324-338 Framing Effects in Choices between Multioutcome Life-expectancy Lotteries
by Lionel M. Bernstein & Gretchen B. Chapman & Arthur S. Elstein - 339-343 Power and Sample Size in Cost- Effectiveness Analysis
by Eugene M. Laska & Morris Meisner & Carole Siegel - 344-352 Health Values and Prospect Theory
by Jonathan R. Treadwell & Leslie A. Lenert - 353-363 Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis Incorporating the Bootstrap
by David J. Pasta & Jennifer L. Taylor & James M. Henning - 364-364 Book Reviews : Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions. By JOHN S. HAMMOND, RALPH L. KEENEY, and HOWARD RAIFFA. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999, 272 pages, hardcover: $22.50
by N/A - 364-366 Book Reviews : Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improv ing Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health. Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998, 136 pages, $26.00
by N/A - 366-367 Law and Ethics
by Dennis J. Mazur - 368-369 Judgmental Psychology
by Alan Schwartz
April 1999, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 113-120 Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes
by Linda D. Mackeigan & Bernie J. O'Brien & Paul I. Oh - 122-127 Subjective Health Status and Health Values in the General Population
by Amir Shmueli - 128-140 The Relationship between Health-state Utilities and the SF-12 in a General Population
by Lena Lundberg & Magnus Johannesson & Dag G.L. Isacson & Lars Borgquist - 141-148 Health-related Quality of Life in Economic Evaluations for Osteoporosis
by Sherine E. Gabriel & Terry S. Kneeland & L. Joseph Melton & Megan M. Moncur & Bruce Ettinger & Anna N.A. Tosteson - 149-156 Conventional and Chained Standard Gambles in the Assessment of Coronary Heart Disease Prevention and Treatment
by Lyne Lalonde & Ann E. Clarke & Lawrence Joseph & Steven A. Grover - 157-166 Distributed Decision Support Using a Web-based Interface
by Gillian D. Sanders & C. Greg Hagerty & Frank A. Sonnenberg & Mark A. Hlatky & Douglas K. Owens - 167-179 An Analysis of Optimal Resource Allocation for Prevention of Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Injection Drug Users and Non-Users
by Anke Richter & Margaret L. Brandeau & Douglas K. Owens - 180-185 Reliability Block Diagrams to Model Disease Management
by Amnon Sonnenberg & John M. Inadomi & Peter Bauerfeind - 186-192 A Survey of Gynecologists' Attitudes Regarding Decision Making in the Management of Non-cancerous Conditions That Frequently Result in Hysterectomy
by James G. Dolan & Fred M. Howard - 193-201 Goodness-of-fit Issues in ROC Curve Estimation
by Stephen J. Walsh - 202-206 Relative Entropy as a Measure of Diagnostic Information
by William A. Benish - 207-213 Implicit Valuation of a Blood-exclusion Decision
by Edward H. Kaplan - 214-215 Plotting ROC Curves
by MossManr Douglas - 215-215 In the Matter of Dr. George Lundberg
by N/A - 216-217 Book Reviews : Making Medical Decisions: An Approach to Clinical Decision Making for Practicing Physicians. By RICHARD GROSS. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American College of Physicians, 1999, 119 pages, $18.00, paperback
by N/A - 217-217 Book Reviews : Signal Detection Theory and ROC Analysis in Psychology and Diagnostics : Collected Papers. By JOHN A. SWETS. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, 308 pages, $54.95, hardbound
by N/A - 218-218 Australian and British Judicial Views on the "Duty of Care" KWEI D. Duty of care, Aristotle, and the British Raj: a re-assessment. Melbourne University Law Review. 1997;21: 65-94
by N/A - 218-218 Law and Ethics Compiled by DENNIS J. MAZUR, MD, PhD Design Defect Liability of Prescription Drugs TORBORG DS. Design defect liability and prescription drugs: who's in charge? Ohio State Law Journal. 1998;59: 633-661
by N/A - 218-219 Patentability of Software Data Structures CHAN C. The patentability of software data structures after Lowry and Warmerdam [Notes]. New England Law Review. 1998;32:899-927
by N/A - 219-220 Judgmental Psychology Compiled by ALAN SCHWARTZ, PhD Evaluating "Divide and Conquer" MORERA, OF, BUDESCU, DV. A psychometric analysis of the "divide and conquer" principle in multicriteria decision. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 1998;75,187-206
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January 1999, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-8 Cost—Effectiveness of Regulations against Using a Cellular Telephone while Driving
by Donald A. Redelmeier & Milton C. Weinstein - 9-15 Problems with Interval Estimates of the Incremental Cost—Effectiveness Ratio
by Daniel F. Heitjan & Alan J. Moskowitz & William Whang - 16-26 The Stability of Preferences for Life-sustaining Care among Persons with AIDS in the Boston Health Study
by Joel S. Weissman & Jennifer S. Haas & Floyd J. Fowler JR. & Constantine Gatsonis & Michael P. Massagli & George R. Seage & Paul Cleary - 27-37 Measuring Patient Preferences by Willingness to Pay to Avoid
by Paul Clay Sorum - 38-41 A Method for Evaluating Health Care Providers' Decision Making
by James G. Dolan - 42-48 A Practice Pathway for the Initial Diagnostic Evaluation of Isolated Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsies
by Ruth W. Miller & Andrew G. Lee & Jade S. Schiffman & Thomas C. Prager & Raymund Garza & Patricia F. Jenkins & Paul Sforza & Alan Verm & David Kaufman & Wendy Robinson & Eric Eggenberger & Rosa A. Tang