Psst, Have I Got a Model for You . . .
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Source: Medical Decision Making - January 14, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Caro, J. J. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
Trust and Recognition: Coming to Terms with Models
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Source: Medical Decision Making - January 14, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Stahl, J. E. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
Stories of MDM: From a Conversation to a Career of Making Less Data More Useful
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Source: Medical Decision Making - January 14, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Zikmund-Fisher, B. J. Tags: Web-Only Essay Source Type: research
Author Index for Abstracts
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Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Web-Only Abstracts Source Type: research
Where Is the Evidence? A Systematic Review of Shared Decision Making and Patient Outcomes
Conclusions. SDM, when perceived by patients as occurring, tends to result in improved affective-cognitive outcomes. Evidence is lacking for the association between empirical measures of SDM and patient behavioral and health outcomes. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Shay, L. A., Lafata, J. E. Tags: Review Source Type: research
Quantifying Long-Term Care Preferences
Conclusions. People do not always strongly prefer home care over institutional care, as is often assumed. The costs of expanding home- and community-based care should be weighed against these preferences. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Guo, J., Konetzka, R. T., Magett, E., Dale, W. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Societal Preferences for Distributive Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Latent Class Discrete Choice Experiment
Economic theory suggests that resources should be allocated in a way that produces the greatest outputs, on the grounds that maximizing output allows for a redistribution that could benefit everyone. In health care, this is known as QALY (quality-adjusted life-year) maximization. This justification for QALY maximization may not hold, though, as it is difficult to reallocate health. Therefore, the allocation of health care should be seen as a matter of distributive justice as well as efficiency. A discrete choice experiment was undertaken to test consistency with the principles of QALY maximization and to quantify the willi...
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Skedgel, C., Wailoo, A., Akehurst, R. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Measuring Family HRQoL Spillover Effects Using Direct Health Utility Assessment
Conclusions. The effects of illness extend beyond the individual patient to include effects on caregivers of patients, parents of ill children, spouses, and other close family and household members. Cost-effectiveness analyses should consider the inclusion of health-related quality of life spillover effects in addition to caregiving time costs incurred by family members of ill individuals. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Prosser, L. A., Lamarand, K., Gebremariam, A., Wittenberg, E. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Comparison of General Population, Patient, and Carer Utility Values for Dementia Health States
This study examines how the population impacts utility values elicited for dementia health states using interviewer-administered time tradeoff valuation of health states defined by the dementia-specific preference-based measures DEMQOL-U (patient-report) and DEMQOL-Proxy-U (carer-report). Eight DEMQOL-U states were valued by 78 members of the UK general population and 71 patients with dementia of mild severity. Eight DEMQOL-Proxy-U states were valued by 77 members of the UK general population and 71 carers of patients with dementia of mild severity. Random-effects generalized least squares regression estimated the impact o...
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Rowen, D., Mulhern, B., Banerjee, S., Tait, R., Watchurst, C., Smith, S. C., Young, T. A., Knapp, M., Brazier, J. E. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Germs Are Germs, and Why Not Take a Risk? Patients' Expectations for Prescribing Antibiotics in an Inner-City Emergency Department
Conclusions. Our findings suggest that recent public health campaigns that have focused on educating patients about the differences between viruses and bacteria omit a key motivation for why patients expect antibiotics, supporting fuzzy-trace theory’s predictions about categorical gist. The implications for public health and emergency medicine are discussed. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Broniatowski, D. A., Klein, E. Y., Reyna, V. F. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Efficacy of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System for Communicating Genetic Risk of Breast Cancer: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach
Conclusions. Intelligent tutors, such as BRCA Gist, are scalable, cost-effective ways of helping people understand complex issues, improving decision making. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Wolfe, C. R., Reyna, V. F., Widmer, C. L., Cedillos, E. M., Fisher, C. R., Brust-Renck, P. G., Weil, A. M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Getting Ahead of Illness: Using Metaphors to Influence Medical Decision Making
Conclusions. Describing the flu virus metaphorically in decision aids or information campaigns could be a simple, cost-effective way to increase vaccinations against the flu. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Scherer, A. M., Scherer, L. D., Fagerlin, A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Impact of Numeracy on Verbatim Knowledge of the Longitudinal Risk for Prostate Cancer Recurrence following Radiation Therapy
Conclusion. For longitudinal presentation of risk, baseline numeracy was strongly prognostic for outcome. However, the addition of numbers to risk graphs improved only the delivery of verbatim knowledge for subjects with lower numeracy. Although subjects reported the least familiarity with pictographs, they were one of the most effective means of transferring information regardless of numeracy. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Hamstra, D. A., Johnson, S. B., Daignault, S., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., Taylor, J. M. G., Larkin, K., Wood, A., Fagerlin, A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
"Thinking about Numbers Is Not My Idea of Fun": Need for Cognition Mediates Age Differences in Numeracy Performance
Discussion. Older adults may show lower numeracy performance due to lack of motivation. We discuss strategies for improving people’s motivation to complete numeracy measures and other numerical tasks. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruine de Bruin, W., McNair, S. J., Taylor, A. L., Summers, B., Strough, J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Cancer Information Seeking in the Digital Age: Effects of Angelina Jolie's Prophylactic Mastectomy Announcement
Conclusion. Jolie’s unique announcement spurred significant information seeking about breast cancer genetic testing and treatment procedures, although the surge in queries returned to preannouncement levels after 1 week. Future research should apply digital methods to advance our understanding of cancer information seeking in the digital age. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - December 17, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Noar, S. M., Althouse, B. M., Ayers, J. W., Francis, D. B., Ribisl, K. M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
