Methods for Performing Survival Curve Quality-of-Life Assessments
Conclusions. SQLA may complement conventional utility assessment methods. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Sumner, W., Ding, E., Fischer, I. D., Hagen, M. D. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Valuing SF-6D Health States Using a Discrete Choice Experiment
Conclusion s. DCEs can be used to investigate preferences for health profiles and to estimate utility weights for multi-attribute utility instruments. Australian cost-utility analyses can now use domestic SF-6D weights. The comparability of DCE results to those using other elicitation methods for estimating utility weights for quality-adjusted life-year calculations should be further investigated. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Norman, R., Viney, R., Brazier, J., Burgess, L., Cronin, P., King, M., Ratcliffe, J., Street, D. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Factors Associated with Informed Decisions and Participation in Bowel Cancer Screening among Adults with Lower Education and Literacy
Conclusions . Participants with the lowest levels of education had greater difficulties making an informed choice about participation in bowel screening. Alternative methods are needed to support informed decision making among lower education populations. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Smith, S. K., Simpson, J. M., Trevena, L. J., McCaffery, K. J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Can Streamlined Multicriteria Decision Analysis Be Used to Implement Shared Decision Making for Colorectal Cancer Screening?
Conclusions. Rank-order–based MCDA could be a simple, practical way to guide individual decisions and assess population decision priorities regarding colorectal cancer screening strategies. Additional research is warranted to further explore the use of these methods for promoting shared decision making. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Dolan, J. G., Boohaker, E., Allison, J., Imperiale, T. F. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Providing Informal Care in Terminal Illness: An Analysis of Preferences for Support Using a Discrete Choice Experiment
Conclusions:The most valued services are those that support carers in their caregiving role; however, supportive care preferences vary with the different circumstances of patients and carers. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Hall, J., Kenny, P., Hossain, I., Street, D. J., Knox, S. A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Understanding of Terminal Cancer and Its Relationship with Attitudes toward End-of-Life Care Issues
Conclusions. The understanding of terminal cancer varied among the 4 participant groups. It was associated with different preferences regarding end-of-life issues. Standardization of these terms is needed to better understand end-of-life care. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee, J. K., Yun, Y. H., An, A. R., Heo, D. S., Park, B.-W., Cho, C.-H., Kim, S., Lee, D. H., Lee, S. N., Lee, E. S., Kang, J. H., Kim, S.-Y., Lee, J. L., Lee, C. G., Lim, Y. K., Kim, S., Choi, J. S., Jeong, H. S., Chun, M. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Sample Size and Power When Designing a Randomized Trial for the Estimation of Treatment, Selection, and Preference Effects
Conclusions. With the growing interest in understanding treatment choices and with the use of decision aids, well-designed and adequately powered 2-stage randomized trial designs offer the opportunity to determine the effects of participants’ preferences. Our sample size formulas will help future studies ensure that they have adequate power to detect selection and preference effects. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Turner, R. M., Walter, S. D., Macaskill, P., McCaffery, K. J., Irwig, L. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Toward Minimum Standards for Certifying Patient Decision Aids: A Modified Delphi Consensus Process
Conclusions. This study provides preliminary certification criteria for PDAs. Scoring and rating processes need to be tested and finalized. However, the process of appraising the quality of the clinical evidence reported by the PDA should be used to complement these criteria; the proposed standards are designed to rate the quality of the development process and shared decision-making design elements, not the quality of the PDA’s clinical content. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Joseph-Williams, N., Newcombe, R., Politi, M., Durand, M.-A., Sivell, S., Stacey, D., O'Connor, A., Volk, R. J., Edwards, A., Bennett, C., Pignone, M., Thomson, R., Elwyn, G. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Varied Understandings of "Terminal Cancer" and Their Implications for Clinical Research and Patient Care
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Source: Medical Decision Making - July 18, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Perkins, H. S. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Confusing Relative Risk with Absolute Risk Is Associated with More Enthusiastic Beliefs about the Value of Cancer Screening
Conclusions. Biased presentations of risk data could affect general beliefs about the value of cancer screening, especially among physicians who uncritically accept mismatched presentations of data. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Caverly, T. J., Prochazka, A. V., Binswanger, I. A., Kutner, J. S., Matlock, D. D. Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research
Utility Values for Adults with Unipolar Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions. This systematic review is a useful resource for decision analysts who need health-related utility values to populate model-based cost-utility analyses of health interventions for the management of unipolar depression. Further research is necessary to understand whether direct or indirect valuation methods are the most robust sources for utilities in depression. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Mohiuddin, S., Payne, K. Tags: Review Source Type: research
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Interviewer Help Answering the Time Tradeoff
Conclusions. Almost all respondents need interviewer help. This may have implications for the validity of interviewer-based TTO elicitations when social acceptability bias is an issue or with explicit hypothesis and the interviewer is not blinded. The FAQ list can be used to standardize interviewer help or as a help function in a web-based TTO. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Edelaar-Peeters, Y., Stiggelbout, A. M., Van Den Hout, W. B. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Australian Public Preferences for the Funding of New Health Technologies: A Comparison of Discrete Choice and Profile Case Best-Worst Scaling Methods
Conclusions. This study provides reassurance that many criteria routinely used for technology decision making are considered to be relevant by the public. The findings clearly indicate the perceived importance of prevention and early diagnosis. The dissimilarity observed between DCE and profile case BWS weights is contrary to the findings of previous comparisons and raises uncertainty regarding the comparative merits of these stated preference methods in a priority-setting context. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Whitty, J. A., Ratcliffe, J., Chen, G., Scuffham, P. A. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Evaluation of Physicians' Cognitive Styles
Conclusion. Physicians capable of suppressing an immediate intuitive response to questions and those scoring higher on rational thinking made fewer inferential mistakes. We found a negative correlation between age and maximizing: Physicians who were more advanced in their careers were less willing to spend time and effort in an exhaustive search for solutions. However, they appeared to have maintained their "mindware" for effective problem solving. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Djulbegovic, B., Beckstead, J. W., Elqayam, S., Reljic, T., Hozo, I., Kumar, A., Cannon-Bowers, J., Taylor, S., Tsalatsanis, A., Turner, B., Paidas, C. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Communicating Relative Risk Changes with Baseline Risk: Presentation Format and Numeracy Matter
Conclusions. Presenting baseline risk in a frequency format improves understanding of relative risk information, whereas a percentage format is likely to lead to misunderstandings. People’s numeracy skills play an important role in correctly understanding medical information. Overall, communicating treatment benefits and harms in the form of relative risk changes remains problematic, even when the baseline risk is explicitly provided. (Source: Medical Decision Making)
Source: Medical Decision Making - June 12, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bodemer, N., Meder, B., Gigerenzer, G. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
