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Monday, 24 October 2005: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Grand Ballroom C (Hyatt Regency San Francisco)
Oral Concurrent Session M - Technology Assessment
Session Chairs:Michael K. Gould, MD, MS
Brendan C. Delaney, MD
1:00 PMIMAGING TESTS AND SURVEILLANCE STRATEGIES FOR COLORECTAL CANCER: IS COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY A COST-EFFECTIVE OPTION?
Gillian D. Sanders, PhD, Dawn Provenzale, MD, MS, Allan J. Lee, Donna Niedzwiecki, PhD, Don Rockey, MD
1:15 PMA SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF HARM-BENEFIT ANALYSIS METHODS FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
Larry D. Lynd, PhD, Megan E. Coombes, MSc, Amir Adel Rashidi, MD, MHA, Mark Sculpher, PhD, Andrew R. Willan, PhD
1:30 PMAUTOMATION BIAS IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING: A STUDY WITH INCORRECT COMPUTER PROMPTING IN BREAST CANCER SCREENING
Eugenio Alberdi, PhD, Andrey Povyakalo, PhD, Lorenzo Strigini, MEng, Peter Ayton, PhD
1:45 PMA COMPARISON OF A PATIENT LEVEL SIMULATION, COHORT SIMULATION AND CLOSED FORM ANALYTIC COST-EFFECTIVENESS MODELS OF THE TREATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Neil Hawkins, PhD, MSc, Karl Claxton, PhD, MSc, BA, Susan Griffin, MSc, BSc, Mark Sculpher, PhD
2:00 PMIMPACT OF THE ATHENA DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR HYPERTENSION MANAGEMENT ON PRIMARY CARE CLINICIANS' PRESCRIPTION BEHAVIOR AND PATIENT BLOOD PRESSURE
Mary K. Goldstein, MD, MS, Susana B. Martins, MD, MSc, Robert Coleman, MS, Pharm, Albert S. Chan, MD, MSc, Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH, Eugene Z. Oddone, MD, MHSc, Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD, Alexander Harris, PhD, Philip Lavori, PhD, Brian B. Hoffman, MD
2:15 PMTHE FUTURE OF THE WAITING LIST FOR LIVER TRANSPLANT: ARE WE WINNING OR LOSING?
James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Joseph Vacanti, MD

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