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Sunday, 23 October 2005: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom BC (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Oral Concurrent Session H - Methodological Advances
Session Chairs:Gillian D. Sanders, PhD
Karl Claxton, PhD, MSc, BA
10:30 AM2.8 MILLION YEARS OF LIFE SAVED: THE SURVIVAL BENEFITS OF AIDS THERAPY IN THE UNITED STATES
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, A. David Paltiel, PhD, Elena Losina, PhD, Lauren M. Mercincavage, BA, Bruce R. Schackman, PhD, Paul E. Sax, MD, Milton C. Weinstein, PhD, Kenneth A. Freedberg, MD, MSc
10:45 AMAPPLICATION OF LOCAL SEARCH METHODS IN COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Pelham M. Barton, PhD, Paresh Jobanputra, DM, FRCP, Stirling Bryan, PhD, Amanda J. Burls, MBBS
11:00 AMCOMUTATONAL IMPROVEMENT OF INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL CONFIGURATION OF REGIONS IN THE U.S. ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND ALLOCATION NETWORK
Nan Kong, MEng, Andrew J. Schaefer, Brady Hunsaker, PhD, Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP
11:15 AMDO PROPENSITY SCORE METHODS OVERCOME BIAS IN ESTIMATING AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS IN OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES?
ZHEHUI LUO, PhD, JOSEPH C. GARDINER, PhD, Cathy J. Bradley, PhD, CHARLES W. GIVEN, PhD
11:30 AMPROBABILISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSES USING LOGISTIC REGRESSION INPUTS TO DECISION MODELS
Daniel P. Schauer, MD, Anthony C. Leonard, PhD, Richard W. Hornung, DrPH, Mark Eckman, MD, MS
11:45 AM*ROC ANALYSIS: A THEOREM REFUTED
George R. Laking, MBChB, BMedSci, Joanne Lord, PhD, Alastair Fischer, PhD

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