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Medical Decision Making (MDM), a journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. Published eight times a year, MDM presents theoretical, statistical, and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines including decision psychology, health economics, clinical epidemiology, and evidence synthesis. View full journal description

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Extrapolation of Time-to-Event Survival Outcomes of Histology-Independent Therapies Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Model

  • Jan Mikelson
  • Richard Birnie
  • Grant McCarthy
  • Matthew Madin-Warburton
  • Ruifeng Xu
  • Justin Chumbley
  • Raquel Aguiar-Ibáñez
  • Mayur Amonkar
  • Gianluca Baio
  • Kate Young
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Visualization of Multi-indication Randomized Control Trial Evidence to Support Decision Making in Oncology: A Case Study on Bevacizumab

  • Sumayya Anwer
  • Janharpreet Singh
  • Sylwia Bujkiewicz
  • Anne Thomas
  • Richard Adams
  • Elizabeth Smyth
  • Pedro Saramago
  • Stephen Palmer
  • Marta O. Soares
  • Sofia Dias
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Competencies for Pediatric Shared Decision Making: A Delphi Consensus Study

  • Vanessa I. Orellana-Villazon
  • Jennifer E. deSante-Bertkau
  • Barbara K. Giambra
  • Ellen A. Lipstein
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Hypothetical Bias in the SG and TTO

  • Aurélien Baillon
  • Han Bleichrodt
  • Georg D. Granic
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Shared Decision Making in Health Care: Theoretical Perspectives for Why It Works and For Whom

  • Ken Resnicow
  • Delwyn Catley
  • Kathy Goggin
  • Sarah Hawley
  • Geoffrey C. Williams
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Interventions to Improve Patient Comprehension in Informed Consent for Medical and Surgical Procedures: An Updated Systematic Review

  • Johanna Glaser
  • Sarah Nouri
  • Alicia Fernandez
  • Rebecca L. Sudore
  • Dean Schillinger
  • Michele Klein-Fedyshin
  • Yael Schenker
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Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: A Tutorial

  • Miqdad Asaria MSc
  • Susan Griffin PhD
  • Richard Cookson PhD
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Identifying Patterns in Preoperative Communication about High-Risk Surgical Intervention: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

  • Lily N. Stalter
  • Nathan D. Baggett
  • Bret M. Hanlon
  • Anne Buffington
  • Elle L. Kalbfell
  • Amy B. Zelenski
  • Robert M. Arnold
  • Justin T. Clapp
  • Margaret L. Schwarze
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Calibration and Validation of the Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma Incidence and Mortality (CRC-AIM) Microsimulation Model Using Deep Neural Networks

  • Vahab Vahdat
  • Oguzhan Alagoz
  • Jing Voon Chen
  • Leila Saoud
  • Bijan J. Borah
  • Paul J. Limburg
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Public Preferences for Determining Eligibility for Screening in Risk-Stratified Cancer Screening Programs: A Discrete Choice Experiment

  • Rebecca A. Dennison
  • Lily C. Taylor
  • Stephen Morris
  • Rachel A. Boscott
  • Hannah Harrison
  • Sowmiya A. Moorthie
  • Sabrina H. Rossi
  • Grant D. Stewart
  • Juliet A. Usher-Smith
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Collective Intelligence Increases Diagnostic Accuracy in a General Practice Setting

  • Matthew D. Blanchard
  • Stefan M. Herzog
  • Juliane E. Kämmer
  • Nikolas Zöller
  • Olga Kostopoulou
  • Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers
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