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Wednesday, 20 October 2004: 7:00 AM-8:30 AM
Grand Ballroom 3 (Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead)
Poster Session - Utility Theory; Health Economics; Patient & Physician Preferences; Simulation; Technology Assessment
COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILDHOOD ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; A RANDOMISED COMPARISON WITH WATCHFUL WAITING
E. Buskens, B Van Staaij, J Van den Akker, AW Hoes, AGM Schilder
ALCHEMIST-FRONTIER: A WEB-BASED APPLICATION TO FACILITATE ANALYSIS OF DECISION MODELS COMPARING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE SEQUENCES OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
Gillian D. Sanders, PhD, Dennis S Lin, MS, Jo Kay Chan, BS, Michael K Gould, MD, MS
EFFECTIVENESS OF ADDING ANTICOAGULATION TO MECHANICAL PROPLYLAXIS FOR PREVENTING DVT IN CRANIOTOMY
Seema S. Sonnad, PhD, Shabbar F. Danish, MD, Mark G. Burnett, MD, Sherman C. Stein, MD
DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN ITEM RESPONSES TO PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING AND MENTAL HEALTH DOMAINS OF THE SF-36
Yanni F. Yu, MA, Andrew P. Yu, MA, Jeonghoon Ahn, Ph.D.
THE IMPACT OF AIDS-RELATED EVENTS AND NON-AIDS SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS ON HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN A MULTINATIONAL TRIAL OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY
Sally S. Araki, PhD, Daphne P. Guh, MSc, Joel Singer, PhD, Vilija Joyce, BA, Vandana Sundaram, MPH, Julie Munakata, MS, Ariel K. Hill, AB, Huiying Sun, PhD, Susan C. Griffin, MSc, BSc, Gillian D. Sanders, PhD, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, MD, MSc, Mark Holodniy, MD, Sheldon Brown, MD, Mark Sculpher, PhD, Wei Yu, PhD, Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS, Aslam H. Anis, PhD, the OPTIMA Investigators
A LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE RELIABILITY, CONSTRUCT VALIDITY, AND RESPONSIVENESS OF HEALTH UTILITY MEASURES IN HIV POPULATIONS
Forest Baker, PhD
ASSESSING RESPONSIVENESS OF THE SELF-ESTEEM AND RELATIONSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE IN MEN WITH ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION TREATED WITH VIAGRA® (SILDENAFIL CITRATE) IN AN INTERNATIONAL, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL
Joseph C. Cappelleri, PhD, MPH, Sidney Glina, Sandeep Duttagupta, PhD, Nancy Sherman, Vera J. Stecher, PhD, Richard L. Siegel, MD, Li-Jung Tseng
HORMONE THERAPY IN 2003: WOMEN’S DECISIONS AND RATIONALE
Linda M French, MD, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, PhD, Mindy Smith, MD, MS, Jodi Holtrop, PhD
IDENTIFICATION OF MEN WHO WANT HELP WITH PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENT DECISIONS
Sara J. Knight, PhD, Mary-Margaret Chren, MD, Laura P. Sands, PhD, Jamie Grollman, MS, Robert B. Nadler, MD, Charles L. Bennett, MD, PhD
WHAT WOULD MAKE THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING BETTER? A SURVEY OF THE SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING MEMBERSHIP
Murray Krahn, MD, MSc, Maciej Witkos, MSc, Gillian D. Sanders, PhD, David Sugano, DPh, Scott B. Cantor, PhD
COMMUNICATING EFFECTS OF RISK INTERVENTIONS IN TERMS OF POSTPONEMENT OF ADVERSE EFFECT
Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, PhD
HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURED BY SF-36 FOR ADULTS WITH DIABETES: A META-ANALYSIS
Susan Norris, MD, MPH, Xuanping Zhang, PhD, Farah Chowdhury, MBBS, MPH, Ping Zhang, PhD
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: A FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION MAKING
Elissa M. Ozanne, PhD, Kelly M. Adduci, MPH, Caroline E. Annis, MS, Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA
ACCEPTABLE FAILURE RATES FOR ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER (CVC) ASSOCIATED BACTEREMIA
Eli N. Perencevich, MD, MS, Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH, Larry J. Strausbaugh, MD, Douglas D. Bradham, DrPH, David N. Fisman, MD, MPH, Anthony D, Harris, MD, MPH
THE HAPPINESS GAP: A MATTER OF CONTEXT?
Heather M. Pond, PhD, Angela Fagerlin, PhD, Christine Goldstein, MSW, Dylan M. Smith, PhD, George Loewenstein, PhD, Peter A. Ubel, MD
COMPARISONS AMONG PATIENT-DERIVED STANDARD GAMBLE VALUES AND SF-6D AND EQ-5D VALUES DERIVED FROM THE SF-12 IN URBAN PATIENTS WITH POOR HEALTH
Bruce R. Schackman, PhD, Paul A. Teixeira, MPH
A FOUR-YEAR UNDERGRADUATE SHARED MEDICAL DECISION MAKING CURRICULUM: EVALUATION OF YEAR 1
Alan Schwartz, PhD, Cynthia M. Waickus, MD, PhD, Elizabeth A. Baker, MD, Edmundo P. Cortez, MD, Robert McNutt, MD
IMPACT OF DISCUSSION ON UTILITY VALUES ELICITED IN A GROUP SETTING
Ken Stein, MB, ChB, MSc, Tania Crabb, BSc, John Brazier, PhD, Julie Ratcliffe, PhD, Ruairidh Milne, BA, MB, ChB, MSc, Alison Round, MB, ChB
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PATIENTS’ AND PHYSICIANS’ PERCEPTIONS OF BENEFIT IN PHASE I CLINICAL TRIALS: METHODOLOGICAL AND BIOETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD, Venita Depuy, M.S., Liana D. Castel, M.S.P.H., Damon M. Seils, M.A., Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD, Kevin Schulman, M.D., Neal J. Meropol, M.D.
ACHIEVING OPTIMAL OUTCOMES AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: ASSESSING POSTOPERATIVE TRAJECTORY USING A MARKOV MODEL
Elena B. Elkin, PhD, J. W. Saranchuk, MD, A. K. Touijer, MD, Peter Scardino, MD, J. A. Eastham, MD, Michael W. Kattan, PhD
CREATING A SYNTHETIC POPULATION OF INDIVIDUALS FROM PUBLIC AND DE-IDENTIFIED DATA USING A MODIFIED ITERATIVE PROPORTIONAL FITTING ALGORITHM
Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, PhD, Mark S. Roberts, MD
GENETIC PROGRAMMING OR MULTIVARIABLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION IN DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH: A CLINICAL EXAMPLE
C.J. Biesheuvel, MSc, I Siccama, PhD, D.E. Grobbee, MD, PhD, K.G.M. Moons, PhD
THE CLINICAL BENEFITS AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF A HYPOTHETICAL CATHETER-BASED STRATEGY FOR THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF VULNERABLE CORONARY PLAQUES, A DECISION ANALYTIC APPROACH
Johanna L. Bosch, PhD, Molly T. Beinfeld, MPH, James E. Muller, MD, Tom Brady, MD, G. Scott Gazelle, MD, MPH, PhD
MEASURING CHANGE IN QUALITY OF LIFE USING PROSPECTIVE VERSUS RETROSPECTIVE MEASURES
Pythia T Nieuwkerk, MA, Marieke S Tollenaar, MA, Frans J Oort, PhD, Mirjam AG Sprangers, PhD
HEALTH AND MATH DON'T MIX: DIFFICULTY INTERPRETING NUMERICAL INFORMATION IN HEALTH CONTEXTS
Angela Fagerlin, PhD, Aleksandra Jankovic, MS, Kenneth Langa, MD, David R. Weir, PhD, Robert J. Willis, PhD, Gwen L. Alexander, PhD, Peter A. Ubel, MD
LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF INSULIN DEPENDENT AND NON-INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES AMONG CANADIAN LABOR FORCE
Farah Farahati, PhD
AN INTERNET SURVEY OF PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
Lisa A. Prosser, PhD, Thomas W. Concannon, MS, Steven D. Pearson, MD, James K. Hammitt, PhD
IMPACT OF GENERIC ENTRY ON COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES
Ya-Chen Tina Shih, PhD, Shu Han, MS, Scott B. Cantor, PhD
A SYSTEMATIC COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE OF GOMPERTZ FUNCTION AND DECLINING EXPONENTIAL APPROXIMATION OF LIFE EXPECTANCY IN DECISION TREES
Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, Annette Conrads-Frank, PhD
A SUMMARY MEASURE OF POPULATION HEALTH
Susan T Stewart, PhD, Rebecca M Woodward, PhD, David M Cutler, PhD
PREDICTING DERMATOLOGICAL UTILITIES: AN EXPLORATION OF CENSORED UTILITY DATA PREDICTION MODELS
Suephy C Chen, MD, MS, Maya Sternberg, PhD, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, MD, MSc, Ingram Olkin, PhD, Seaver L Soon, MD, Ponciano Cruz, MD, Shenara Sexton, MD, Calvin O McCall, MD, Mary K. Goldstein, MD
A RECIPE FOR INCOHERENCE: AVERAGING TIME-TRADEOFF OR STANDARD-GAMBLE UTILITIES ACROSS HEALTH ATTRIBUTES
Gordon B Hazen, PhD
HEALTH VALUES OF PATIENTS INFECTED WITH HIV, HEPATITIS C, OR BOTH: ARE TWO VIRUSES WORSE THAN ONE?
Joseph M. Mrus, MD, MSc, Kenneth E. Sherman, MD, PhD, Anthony C. Leonard, PHD, Susan N. Sherman, DPA, Karen L. Mandell, PharmD, Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH
THE GAP EFFECT: DISCONTINUITIES OF PREFERENCES AROUND DEAD
Peep F. M. Stalmeier, PhD, Jan J.V. Busschbach, PhD, Leida L Lamers, PhD, Paul F. M. Krabbe, PhD
VALUATION OF ARTHRITIS HEALTH STATES ACROSS ETHNIC GROUPS AND BETWEEN PATIENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS
J. Souchek, PhD, M Byrne, PhD, PA Kelly, PhD, M Richardson, MSW, C Pak, MS, H Nelson, MS, ME Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD
THE EFFECT OF AGE, RACE AND GENDER ON UTILITY VALUES FOR HYPOTHETICAL HEALTH STATES
Eve Wittenberg, MPP, PhD, Nomita Divi, MS, Elkan Halpern, PhD, Sally S. Araki, PhD, Lisa A. Prosser, PhD, Jane C. Weeks, MD
DIAGNOSTIC DECISIONS ARE LOADED: THE EFFECT OF WORKLOAD ON RACIAL AND GENDER STEREOTYPING
Jordana R. Muroff, MSW, MA, James S. Jackson, Ph.D., Carol T. Mowbray, Ph.D., Joseph A. Himle, Ph.D.

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