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Decision Analysis in Orthopaedics
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research, 2005Orthopaedic surgeons are faced with an ever-growing amount of clinical information from which they are required to make treatment decisions. Many of these decisions can be approached with relative certainty. However, there are many situations where the optimal decision is less clear.
Scott M, Sporer, Aaron G, Rosenberg
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IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1979
Imprecision in decision analysis is modeled using fuzzy-set theory. Fuzziness on the probabilities and utilities used in a decision analysis implies fuzziness on the outputs; a method is suggested for calculating imprecise, though informative, statements about the attractiveness of the different options in a decision tree, which depends on the ...
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Imprecision in decision analysis is modeled using fuzzy-set theory. Fuzziness on the probabilities and utilities used in a decision analysis implies fuzziness on the outputs; a method is suggested for calculating imprecise, though informative, statements about the attractiveness of the different options in a decision tree, which depends on the ...
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Decision Analysis in Psychiatry
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1995BackgroundDecision analysis is an explicit, quantitative approach to examining difficult decisions about course of action. Its applicability to psychiatry is considered.MethodAn example of how decision analysis could be used in psychiatry is given, criticism of the technique is discussed, and previous attempts to apply it to mental illness problems ...
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The Foundations of Decision Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics, 1968Decision analysis has emerged from theory to practice to form a discipline for balancing the many factors that bear upon a decision. Unusual features of the discipline are the treatment of uncertainty through subjective probability and of attitude toward risk through utility theory.
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Subjectivity in decision analysis
Revue d'intelligence artificielle, 2009This paper considers decision making in light of multiple criteria. These criteria are often expressed in subjective form. The continuum between objective and subjective is examined, arguing that subjective views are a fact of life in decision making. The rational-deductive philosophy seeks to attain objectivity.
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The basics of decision analysis
Journal of Dental Education, 1992Historically, decision analysis (DA) arose from economics, psychology, and statistics. Medical and dental applications have developed over the past two decades. While decision psychology explores how people make their decisions, the DA process involves construction of a model and development of insights into the strengths and uncertainties about ...
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A Decision Analysis of Consent
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2006In Against Bioethics (2005), I argue that applied bioethics often causes harm that could be avoided through the application of a kind of decision analysis based on utilitarianism.
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Surgery, 1996
The technique of decision analysis is often applied to clinical policy and economic issues in surgery. Because surgeons may be unfamiliar with such work, this article catalogues decision analysis studies in the surgical specialties.We reviewed the medical literature (1966 to 1994) to identify surgical decision analysis studies and to assess trends over
J D, Birkmeyer, N O, Birkmeyer
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The technique of decision analysis is often applied to clinical policy and economic issues in surgery. Because surgeons may be unfamiliar with such work, this article catalogues decision analysis studies in the surgical specialties.We reviewed the medical literature (1966 to 1994) to identify surgical decision analysis studies and to assess trends over
J D, Birkmeyer, N O, Birkmeyer
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Pharyngitis and Decision Analysis
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1977Excerpt To the editor: The paper about the cost-effectiveness of therapy for pharyngitis by Tompkins, Burnes, and Cable (Ann Intern Med86:481-492, 1977) is certain to arouse controversy both about ...
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Physical Therapy, 1989
This condensed review of a complex method can provide only a general view of what clinical decision analysis is and why it might be useful. It also should help clarify, however, what decision analysis is not: This is not a practical method for making most decisions in everyday clinical practice.
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This condensed review of a complex method can provide only a general view of what clinical decision analysis is and why it might be useful. It also should help clarify, however, what decision analysis is not: This is not a practical method for making most decisions in everyday clinical practice.
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