Disease relevance of Decision Support Techniques

• A decision analysis of streptokinase plus heparin as compared with heparin alone for deep-vein thrombosis [1].
• We used the techniques of decision analysis to measure the clinical benefits and the economic consequences of immediate resection versus transplantation in patients with compensated cirrhosis and who were diagnosed with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [2].
• Prospectively collected, population-based data on 57 RA patients' preferences (obtained using the category scaling and time trade-off techniques), charge data from a consecutive, population-based cohort of 36 RA patients with NSAID-related gastric ulcer, and literature-derived probability estimates were incorporated into a decision analysis model [3].
• Antiarrhythmic prophylaxis vs warfarin anticoagulation to prevent thromboembolic events among patients with atrial fibrillation. A decision analysis [4].
• METHODS--We used decision analysis to assess the clinical and economic effects of three treatments--phase 1 therapy alone or combined with omeprazole or ranitidine hydrochloride therapy--for patients with persistent, symptomatic grade 2 or higher gastroesophageal reflux disease [5].

Psychiatry related information on Decision Support Techniques

• The potential use of decision analysis to support shared decision making in the face of uncertainty: the example of atrial fibrillation and warfarin anticoagulation [6].

High impact information on Decision Support Techniques

• Users' guides to the medical literature. VII. How to use a clinical decision analysis. A. Are the results of the study valid? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group [7].
• A decision analysis was performed to determine if and when isoniazid should be prescribed to prevent tuberculosis in these patients [8].
• Re: Decision analysis of hematopoietic growth factor use in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy [9].
• METHODS: Decision analysis was used to compare per-person costs with third-party payers of three colorectal screening strategies used to diagnose FAP in at-risk persons [10].
• Screening blood donors for hereditary hemochromatosis: decision analysis model based on a 30-year database [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of Decision Support Techniques

• Therefore, we used decision analysis to calculate maximum expected utility and minimum cost for skin-testing or not skin-testing patients who have endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus that is susceptible to cloxacillin and who have a questionable history of immediate-type hypersensitivity to penicillin [12].
• Zidovudine prophylaxis for needlestick exposure to human immunodeficiency virus: a decision analysis [13].
• Cost-effectiveness decision analysis of intramuscular ceftriaxone versus oral cefixime in adolescents with gonococcal cervicitis [14].
• METHODS: A medical decision analysis model for the prophylactic administration of ursodiol in morbidly obese patients undergoing rapid weight reduction by either gastric bypass surgery or very-low-calorie-diet, was developed through the use of data from two clinical trials and review of the related literature [15].
• METHODS: A decision analysis model was used to compare four treatment approaches after local excision for DCIS: mastectomy, irradiation, irradiation plus adjuvant tamoxifen, or observation [16].

Biological context of Decision Support Techniques

• Computer databases are commonly used for the management of clinical toxicology cases and the toxicology computer database/clinical decision aid studied is well accepted and used in Emergency Medicine practice [17].
• We evaluated outcomes following the administration of a video-based decision aid (DA) prior to clinical p53 genetic counseling and testing among persons who had previously participated in cancer genetics research [18].

Anatomical context of Decision Support Techniques

• Total thyroidectomy or thyroid lobectomy in patients with low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer: surgical decision analysis of a controversy using a mathematical model [19].
• Likely gains in life expectancy of patients with coronary artery disease treated with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, as predicted by a decision analysis model [20].

Associations of Decision Support Techniques with chemical compounds

• According to the decision analysis, heparin alone was the better treatment for all 36 patients [1].
• DESIGN: Formal decision analysis to determine the relative value of several diagnostic strategies and information synthesis of studies evaluating noninvasive diagnostic tests [21].
• We used decision analysis to evaluate clinical and economic outcomes of different anticoagulation strategies with warfarin [22].
• A decision analysis was conducted to examine whether health care workers should receive short-term (42 days) zidovudine treatment following percutaneous exposure to blood, as well as to determine the value of testing "donor" (patient's) blood [23].
• Effects of rofecoxib and naproxen on life expectancy among patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a decision analysis [24].

Gene context of Decision Support Techniques

• Testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility genes: a decision analysis [25].
• Thus, detection of hTERT expression in tumors histopathologically classified as mature teratomas enables a molecular-diagnostic confirmation and might aid decision making for treatment of patients presenting with this tumor subtype [26].
• This report presents a decision analysis for assessing the usefulness of ER/PR data in this situation [27].
• Effect of prevention strategies on survival and quality-adjusted survival of women with BRCA1/2 mutations: an updated decision analysis [28].
• Duration of oral anticoagulant treatment in patients with venous thromboembolism and a deficiency of antithrombin, protein C or protein S--a decision analysis [29].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Decision Support Techniques

• Using techniques of decision analysis, we examine the cost-effectiveness of several of these--warfarin sodium, low-dose subcutaneous heparin sodium, graduated compression stockings, intermittent pneumatic compression, heparin plus dihydroergotamine mesylate, and heparin plus stockings--compared with clinical diagnosis and treatment only [30].
• We used decision analysis to determine the benefits and risks of preventive therapy with isoniazid for young adults whose only risk factor for the development of active tuberculosis was a positive tuberculin skin test [31].
• Living-donor versus cadaveric liver transplantation for non-resectable small hepatocellular carcinoma and compensated cirrhosis: a decision analysis [32].
• Surveillance colonoscopy or chemoprevention with COX-2 inhibitors in average-risk post-polypectomy patients: a decision analysis [33].
• A decision analysis was performed to determine the cost-effectiveness of beta-lactamase screening and alternative therapies for patients attending sexually transmitted diseases clinics [34].

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