Decision Modeling of Disagreements: Pediatric Hematologists’ Management of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 805-815

  Buchanan, George R ^b   Dambita, Nkossi ^a   Casella, James F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical practice guidelines; clinical prediction rules; decision rules; evidence synthesis; informatics; instrument calibration equivalency among scales; statistical methods; utility assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MANPOWER; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHILD; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84857474458     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X11400417     Document Type: Article

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