A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: A novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tsalatsanis, Athanasios ^a   Hozo, Iztok ^b   Vickers, Andrew ^c   Djulbegovic, Benjamin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION TREE; EMOTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOPSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 77956587720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-51     Document Type: Article

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