Opening Plenary Session

Monday, October 20, 2008: 9:15 AM
Grand Ballroom A-D (Hyatt Regency Penns Landing)
Session Chairs:
Heather Taffet Gold, PhD and Lisa Prosser, PhD
9:15 AM
UNDERSTANDING WHY TREATMENT PREFERENCES DIFFER BY RACE
Florina Constantinescu, Georgetown University, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC and Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, Yale University, New Haven, CT
9:30 AM
BAYESIAN BIVARIATE HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR ANALYSING COST-EFFECTIVENESS DATA FROM CLUSTER RANDOMIZED TRIALS
Richard Grieve, PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Richard Nixon, PhD, Novartis Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland and Simon G. Thompson, DSc, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom
9:45 AM
ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF DECISION SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES USING THE INTERNATIONAL PATIENT DECISION AID STANDARDS INSTRUMENT (IPDASI)
Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD1, Annette M. O'Connor, PhD2, Carol Bennett, MSc3, Robert Newcombe1, Marie Anne Durand1, Elizabeth Drake, MHA3, Natalie Joseph1, Sara D. Khangura, BA3, Mary C. Politi, PhD4, Anton Saarimaki, MCS3, Stephanie Sivell1, Mareike Stiel1, Steven Bernstein5, Nananda F. Col, MD, MPH, MPP6, Angela Coulter, PhD7, Karen B. Eden, PhD8, Martin Haerter9, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, PhD10, Nora Moumjid, PhD11, Lilisbeth Perestelo Perez12, Dawn Stacey, PhD2, Richard Thomson, MD13, Tim Whelan, MD14, Trudy van der Weijden15 and Adrian Edwards, MB, PhD16, (1)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (2)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)Miriam Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, (5)Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan, MI, (6)Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, (7)Picker Institute Europe, Oxford, United Kingdom, (8)Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, (9)UniverHauptstrasse 5, Freiburg, Germany, (10)Center for Ethics, E. Lansing, MI, (11)Gresac - Umr 5823 Cnrs, Lyon, France, (12)Department of Evaluation and Planning, Tenerife, Spain, (13)University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (14)Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (15)Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, (16)University of Wales Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
10:00 AM
DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS INFLUENCE TREATMENT DECISION PROCESSES AMONG NEWLY DIAGNOSED PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS
Michael A. Diefenbach, PhD and Nihal Mohamed, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY