Primer on medical decision analysis: Part 3 - Estimating probabilities and utilities

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-141

  Naglie, Gary ^a   Krahn, Murray D ^a   Naimark, David ^a   Redelmeier, Donald A ^a   Detsky, Allan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

decision analysis; decision trees; expected value; probability; sensitivity analysis; utility

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOPSY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDNISONE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030914659     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9701700203     Document Type: Review

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