Health care economic analyses are becoming increasingly important in the evaluation of
health care interventions, including many within ophthalmology. Encompassed with the …

This paper is Part 1 of a five-part series covering practical issues in the performance of
decision analysis. The intended audience is individuals who are learning how to perform …

Decision theory provides a formal framework for making logical choices in the face of
uncertainty. Given a set of alternatives, a set of consequences, and a correspondence …

Evidence‐based medicine (EBM) has thus far failed to adequately account for the
appropriate incorporation of other potential warrants for medical decision making into …

ContextA recent randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis indicated that central venous
catheters impregnated with an antiseptic combination of chlorhexidine and silver …

This part of a five-part series covering practical issues in the performance of decision
analysis outlines the basic strategies for building decision trees. The authors offer six …

Background: Lower extremity trauma is common. Despite an abundance of literature on
severe injuries that can be treated with salvage or amputation, the appropriate management …

Objective: To investigate the impact of patients' preferences for the treatment of atrial
fibrillation, by using individualised decision analysis combining probability and utility …

Objective: To compare primary resection and anastomosis (PRA) with and without
defunctioning stoma to Hartmann's procedure (HP) as the optimal operative strategy for …

Background: Physicians are uncertain about when to pursue intensive glucose control
among older patients with diabetes. Objective: To assess the effect of comorbid illnesses …