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Sunday, 17 October 2004: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Grand Ballroom 3 (Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead)
Poster Session - Public Health; Methodological Advances
*MARKOV MODEL OF A PARTIALLY-EFFECTIVE HIV VACCINE ON ADOLESCENT WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA
Sam Amirfar, MD, Jim Hollenberg, MD, Salim Abdool Karim, MD, PhD
ESTIMATING THE COST AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE REFERRAL STRATEGIES FOR HIV PARTNER COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES
Donatus U. Ekwueme, PhD, Angela B. Hutchinson, PhD, MPH, Hazel Dean, ScD, MPH, Angela S. Kim, MPH
SYSTEMATIC META-ANALYSIS ON THE EFFICACY OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS IN PATIENTS WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Alexander Gohler, MD, Rainer Dietz, MD, Karl Josef Osterziel, MD, Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc
EFFECTS OF BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS CONDUCTED IN U.S. STD CLINICS ON THE REDUCTION OF UNSAFE SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AND STD REINFECTION: META-ANALYSIS
Angela S. Kim, MPH, Tanesha Griffin, MPH, Paola C. Marrero-Gonzalez, MPH, Sima M. Rama, MPH, Nicole Crepaz, PhD
*100 YEARS OF INHALATIONAL ANTHRAX: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF CASES FROM 1900 TO 2001
Jon-Erik C. Holty, MD, Dena M. Bravata, MD, MS, Hau Liu, MD, MPH, MBA, Emilee R. Wilhelm, BA, Gregory S. Zaric, PhD, Kathryn M. McDonald, MS, Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS
PROGNOSIS AND THE VALUE OF CANCER SCREENING
David H Howard, PhD
AN ANALYSIS OF STATE DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE BETWEEN PERSONS WITH AND WITHOUT DIABETES
Kumiko Imai, PhD, Ping Zhang, PhD
QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PEOPLE WITH SELF-REPORTED VISION PROBLEMS IN THE US. BRFSS, 2002
Sanjat Kanjilal, MPH, Gloria Beckles, MD, MSc, K.M Venkat Narayan, MD, MPH, MBA, Jinan Saaddine, MD
PREVALENCE AND COST IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING DEFINITIONS FOR CHD RISK FACTORS
Robert Kaplan, PhD, Theodore Ganiats, MD
SHOULD WE TREAT PEOPLE WITH OCULAR HYPERTENSION TO PREVENT GLAUCOMA?
Steven Kymes, Ph.D., Michael Kass, M.D., Mae Gordon, Ph.D.
COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES PREVENTION IN THE GENERAL POPULATION IN A US SETTING
Michael E. Minshall, MD, MPH, Andrew J. Palmer, BSc, MBBS, Stephane Roze, MS, William J. Valentine, PhD
HEALTH AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF A PROPOSED CALIFORNIA CIGARETTE EXCISE TAX INCREASE
Michael K Ong, MD, PhD, Benjamin Alamar, PhD, Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
GIS MAPPING TO MAPPING TO LOCATE ADHD-STIMULANT RISKS
Renee F Robinson, PharmD, MPH, John R Hayes, PhD, S David Baker, PharmD, Marcel Casavant, MD, John D Mahan, MD
HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION IN PERINATALLY HIV-INFECTED U.S. CHILDREN: 2001 V. 1995
Stephanie Sansom, PhD, John Anderson, PhD, Thom Sukalac, BA, Sada Soorapanth, PhD, Jill Clark, MPH, Jeanne Bertolli, PhD, Ken Dominguez, MD
PERINATAL SYPHILIS TRANSMISSION OUTCOMES OF RPR VERSUS RAPID TESTING IN FIELD CONDITIONS IN HAITI: RESULTS OF A DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL
Bruce R. Schackman, PhD, Christopher P. Neukermans, BA, Sandy Narette, Patrice Joseph, MD, Daniel W. Fitzgerald, MD
*RISKS AND BENEFITS OF THE ORAQUICK HIV-1 RAPID TEST IN MULTIPAROUS WOMEN
Sunil D. Shroff, MD, John B. Wong, MD
*MEASURING HOW PATIENTS USE INTERNET-BASED DECISION AIDS
Griffin Weber, Jen Fortin, MPH, Carol Landau, PhD, Michele Cyr, MD, Nananda F Col, MD, MPH, MPP
EVSI FOR SURVIVAL TRIALS
ALAN BRENNAN, BSc, MSc, JAMES B CHILCOTT, MSc, ANTHONY O'HAGAN, PhD, SAMER KHARROUBI, PhD
*DATA-DRIVEN BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORK FOR FORECASTING EMPLOYMENT ONE YEAR AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Jonathan A. Castro, MD, Jason N. Doctor, PhD, Sureyya S. Dikmen, PhD, Nancy R. Temkin, PhD
*MODEL PERFORMANCE TRACKING AND RISK ADJUSTMENT USING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL METHODS
John Chuo, MD, John A. F. Zupancic, MD, ScD, Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD
COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR ESTIMATING PARTIAL EVPI IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Douglas Coyle
APPLICATION OF A BAYESIAN MARKOV MODEL TO DECISION MAKING
Meichun Ding, MS, Yan Xing, MD, MS, Dennis D. Cox, PhD, Janice N. Cormier, MD, MPH
A COMPARISON OF THE CASE-CONTROL AND CASE-CROSSOVER DESIGNS FOR ESTIMATING COSTS OF FALL-RELATED INJURIES AMONG MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES 65 AND OLDER
Eric A. Finkelstein, PhD, Hong Chen, MS
A NEW RESPONSE FORMAT FOR WTP: RESULTS FROM TWO PSYCHOMETRIC STUDIES
Jennifer T. Heckendorn, BA, Jason Riis, PhD, Peter A. Ubel, MD, Dylan M Smith, PhD
USING LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS TO ESTIMATE TEST ACCURACY FOR COMMON MEASURES OF CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
Andrew Scott LaJoie, PhD, MSPH, Steven J. McCabe, MD, MSc, Stephen E. Edgell, PhD
PROBABILISTIC MODELING OF MEDICAL ERRORS IN RADIOTHERAPY
Robert C. Lee, Edidiong Ekaette, Karie-Lynn Kelly, Chris Newcomb, Peter Craighead, Peter Dunscombe
WEB-BASED BAYESIAN COMMUNICATION: THE BAYESIAN Z-TEST
Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD, Alexander Barshay, MS, L. Allan Grimm, BS, Karen A. Robinson, MSc, Cynthia Sheffield, MLS, MBA
MEASURING ADAPTATION: THE TIME TRADE-OFF UTILITY MEASURE CAPTURES IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER AMPUTATION
Brianna J. Sarr, BS, Peter A. Ubel, MD, Dylan M Smith, PhD
*USING COMBINED PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS TO PREDICT DIRECT AND INDIRECT COSTS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, Bernhard Bornschein, MD, MPH, Annika Spottke, MD, Karin Berger, Wolfgang H. Oertel, MD, Richard C. Dodel, MD
USING INVERSE DECISION THEORY TO DETERMINE A C/B RATIO FOR SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS OF CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA (CIN)
Richard J. Swartz, PhD, Dennis Cox, PhD, Scott B. Cantor, PhD, Kalatu Davies, Michele Follen, MD, PhD
COMBINING PROPENSITY SCORE WITH CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF INSULIN TREATMENT FOR TYPE II DIABETES
PATRICK THIEBAUD, PHD, Michael B Nichol, PhD, BIMAL PATEL, PHARM.D
IS THERE A SPECIAL AWARD FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL DRUG IN RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS? THE CASE OF INTERFERON FOR CHRONIC HEPATITIS C
Fabio A. Tinč, MD, Luigi Pagliaro, MD, Massimo Attanasio, PhD
*COMPARISON OF META-ANALYSIS APPROACHES: SUMMARY RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (SROC) CURVE VERSUS BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR ASSESSMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
Yan Xing, MD, MS, Xiuyu J. Cong, MS, Millennia Foy, MS, Meichun Ding, MS, Dennis D. Cox, PhD, Kelly K. Hunt, MD, Janice N. Cormier, MD, MPH
*REGRESSION ARTIFACTS IN LINEAR MAPPING HEALTH STATUS MEASURE TO UTILITY: EVIDENCE FROM MONTE CARLO SIMULATION
Andrew P. Yu, MA, Yanni F. Yu, MA, Michael B Nichol, PhD
COMPARISON OF SF-6D, HUI, AND EQ-5D MEAN UTILITIES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Johanna L. Bosch, PhD
*CALIBRATION OF A NATURAL HISTORY MODEL OF CERVICAL CANCER USING LONGITUDINAL PRIMARY DATA
Jane J. Kim, MS, Karen M. Kuntz, ScD, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, AB, Milton C. Weinstein, PhD, Henri Folse, BS, Steven Sweet, BS, Sue J. Goldie, MD, MPH

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Papers submitted for the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition are denoted with an asterisk (*)