An expert on every street corner? Methods for eliciting distributions in geographically dispersed opinion pools

Value in Health

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 434-437

  Sperber, Daniel ^a   Mortimer, Duncan ^a   Lorgelly, Paula ^a   Berlowitz, David ^b,c,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BREATHING AND SLEEP   (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

clinical opinion; elicitation; expert opinion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL EXPERT; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84875456158     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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