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Monday, October 22, 2007: 11:00 AM-12:45 PM
Grand Station I (Sheraton Station Square Hotel)
Concurrent Abstracts A: Advances in Quantitative Methods
Session Chairs:John Wong, MD
Karl Claxton, PhD, MSc, BA
11:00 AM*INTEGRATING DIRECT AND INDIRECT COMPARISONS OF DRUG EFFICACY DATA WITH META-ANALYSIS
Wendy M. Golden, MD, MPH, Thomas A. Trikalinos, MD, John B. Wong, MD
11:15 AM*CLINICAL PREDICTION MODELS IN DAILY PRACTICE: PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR MISSING PREDICTOR VALUES
Kristel J.M. Janssen, MSc, Y. Vergouwe, PhD, A.R.T. Donders, PhD, F.E. Harrell, PhD, Q. Cheng, PhD, Diederick E. Grobbee, PhD, MD, K.G.M. Moons, PhD
11:30 AM*VALUE OF INFORMATION AND VALUE OF IMPLEMENTATION: APPLICATION OF A FRAMEWORK TO INFORM RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISIONS IN METASTATIC HORMONE-REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER
Ties Hoomans, MS, Elisabeth A.L. Fenwick, Stephen Palmer, MSc, Karl Claxton, PhD, MSc, BA
11:45 AM*WHEN TO BIOPSY IN BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS? A QUANTITATIVE MODEL USING MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES
Jagpreet Chhatwal, MS, Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS, Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD
12:00 PMA GENERAL APPROACH TO VALUE OF INFORMATION USING STOCHASTIC MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
Claire McKenna, PhD, Zaid Chalabi, PhD, David Epstein, MSc, Karl Claxton, PhD, MSc, BA
12:15 PMCALIBRATING LONGITUDINAL MODELS TO CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA: THE EFFECT OF TEMPORAL CHANGES IN HEALTH PRACTICES
Douglas Taylor, Denise Kruzikas, Ankur Pandya, Rowan Iskandar, Kristen Gilmore, Milton C. Weinstein, PhD
12:30 PMDECISION CURVE ANALYSIS DISTINGUISHES USEFUL MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR DETECTION OF PROSTATE CANCER
Andrew Vickers, PhD, Angel Serio, MS, Hans Lilja, MD, PhD, Scott Eggener, Elena Elkin

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