Primer on medical decision analysis: Part 1 - Getting started

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-125

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION PROGRAM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; REVIEW;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0031005944     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9701700201     Document Type: Review

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