Decision Analysis - Brief Selected Bibliography

Prepared by Kristine Alpi, Weill Cornell Medical Library

• Anderson, Patricia F. Search engine decision tree. Medicine on the Net, 7(1) January 2001: 5. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/articles/dtree4.pdf
  
  
• Berner, Eta S. (Ed.). Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice. New York: Springer, 1999.
  
  
• Chapman, Gretchen B. and Frank A. Sonnenberg, Eds. Decision making in health care : theory, psychology, and applications. Cambridge series on judgment and decision making. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  
  
• Fuller SS et al. Integrating knowledge resources at the point of care: opportunities for librarians. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1999 Oct; 87 (4): 393-403.
  
  
• Gross, Richard. Making medical decisions : an approach to clinical decision making for practicing physicians. Philadelphia : American College of Physicians, c1999.
  
  
• Hunt DL et al. Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on physician performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. JAMA 1998 Oct 21, 280(15): 1339-46. Comment in: ACP J Club. 1999 May-Jun;130(3):79; JAMA. 1998 Oct 21;280(15):1360-1.
  
  
• McGowan JJ, Winstead-Fry P. Problem Knowledge Couplers: reengineering evidence-based medicine through interdisciplinary development, decision support, and research. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 1999 Oct; 87(4): 462-70.
  
  
• O'Connor AM et al. Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: systematic review. BMJ 1999 Sep 18;319 (7212):731-4 Free online: http://bmj.com/cgi/reprint/319/7212/731
  
  
• Owens, DK & Sox HC. Medical decision-making: probabilistic medical reasoning. In Medical informatics : computer applications in health care and biomedicine. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, c2001.
  
  
• Richardson WS, Detsky AS. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: VII. How to Use a Clinical Decision Analysis. A. Are the results of the study valid? JAMA, Apr 26, 1995, 273(16): 1292-1295 ; B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA, May 24/31, 1995, 273(20): 1610-1613.
  
  
• Rosenstein AH. Measuring the benefit of performance improvement and decision support. Am J Med Qual 1999 Nov-Dec;14(6):262-9.
  
  
• Rosenstein AH. Measuring the benefits of clinical decision support: return on investment. Health Care Manage Rev 1999 Spring; 24(2):32-43.
  
  
• Schulkin J. Decision sciences and evidence-based medicine--two intellectual movements to support clinical decision making. Acad Med 2000 Aug;75(8):816-8.
  
  
• Souchek, J et al. A trial for comparing methods for eliciting treatment preferences for men with advanced prostate cancer: results from the initial visit. Medical Care, 2000, 38(10): 1040-50.
  Introduction to the difficulties in using a variety of utility assessment measures for patient care decision-making in the clinical context of prostate cancer.