Overestimation error and unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for acute cystitis in adult women

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 405-411

  McIsaac, Warren J ^a   Hunchak, Cheryl L ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute cystitis; computerized elicitation of preferences and judgments; heuristics and biases; judgment and decision psychology; policy capturing; prospect theory; psychometric methods scaling; risk communication or risk perception; unnecessary antibiotics; utility assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTITIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URINALYSIS; URINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYSTITIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 79957598925     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X10391671     Document Type: Article

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