Bayesian probability encoding in medical decision analysis

... a medical decision problem The objective of this dissertation is to focus on developing useful probability- encoding models for routine use in medical decision analysis Central to probability encoding ... uncertainties that surround medical care and therapeutic interventions, proper decision analysis is a reliable anchor in the sea of fuzziness Introduction 1.2 Med...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:03

... THREE Elicitation in Cost Risk Analysis Elicitation in cost risk analysis1 focuses on obtaining a subjective cost probability distribution directly or (more commonly) eliciting a subjective probability ... evaluate elicitation practices in cost risk analysis For example, Lurie, Goldberg, and Robinson (1993) emphasize the mathematical and probabili...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... concerning intracranial hemorrhage and anticoagulant thromboprophylaxis using the search terms brain injury, acute; craniocerebral trauma; cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic, anticoagulation, and heparin ... preventing DVT be ethical to conduct a randomized, controlled, clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of using anticoagulant prophylaxis in patients with traumatic b...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... any, have the regional responsibility for staff training by conducting disaster and disaster-related courses and training The involvement of the same people in both planning for emergencies and ... teenagers The following investigation revealed certain short-comings regarding the medical response, recognizing the need of a regional point of contact ("POC") and command and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... history of diabetes and higher body mass indexes During the five years of follow-up, 1 02 (15 .2% ) patients in the normoglycaemia group and 66 (18.3%) patients in the hyperglycaemia group died There ... inclusion in the study We excluded 21 1 patients who refused to participate in the study, 20 3 patients due to terminal illness, and another 29...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... the change in pulse pressure and SV were significantly correlated both during PLR and following VE [30] Lafanechère and colleagues examined 22 intubated and fully sedated patients with an esophageal ... were informed that they participated in this study Patients were enrolled from the medical intensive care unit (ICU) , and any patient requiring VE as determined by the ICU...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia, while baseline creatinine, mechanical ventilation and level of care were associated with ICU-acquired hypernatraemia Outcomes of care Length of stay and mortality in the ICU and ... determine both the aetiology of the ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia and clinicians' responses Second, our study was observational in natur...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... Critical Care Vol 11 No Sleeswijk et al Table Questions regarding the prevalence and treatment of atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients What is the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation ... nosocomial complications Can treatment of atrial fibrillation improve survival? There are few data on the effect of treatment of AF on mortali...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... for daily interruption of sedation and × for sedation algorithm) ; the lines represent the composite SOFA for each group (thick line for daily interruption of sedation; dashed line for sedation algorithm) ... daily interruption of sedation time for the Sequential treated Failure Assessment (SOFA) overand sedationgroup of patients treated by daily interrupti...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... solar gains, resulting thus in lower cooling and higher heating energy demand 35 Energy Consumption [kWh/m3/a] IWEC -Heating IWEC -Cooling TMY-2 -Heating 30 TMY-2 -Cooling 25 20 15 10 Main Theatres ... significant differences in heating energy demand between buildings – up to a factor of more than – depending on both the age and the usage of the building, (b)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... Decision Analysis and Risk Management: Two Sides of the Same Coin Brian Denis Egan, Global Knowledge Instructor, MBA, PMP Introduction Every decision involves an analysis of possible ... control in decision making This definition is then related to the four steps of the decision making process and finally to the three types of error (risk) that occu...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 17:15

... vinh university foreign language department - - ellipsis in english: an analysis of errors made by secondary school students (phân tích lỗi thờng gặp học sinh thpt việc sử dụng phép tỉnh ... school students commit in using ellipsis in English? What might be the causes and sources of the errors in using ellipsis in English? Wh...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:16

... 340 Table Cronbach’s alpha (standardized) for the subdomains and the lowest alpha that was reached by deleting an item in that sub-domain with 95% CIs A Schacht et al Sub-domains At baseline At ... of all sub-domains at baseline and endpoint was robust against single missing items, as the alpha values did not decrease by any meaningful degree when one item was deleted The TA...

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