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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-3-5
pubmed:abstractText
Clinical decision science is concerned with rational clinical decisions. All branches of medical research contribute here, but controlled clinical trials of the pragmatic variety carry a particular responsibility. Usually, however, they are not conducted and reported so that they can be used directly as input to a decision analysis. We suggest that the forces of the two methodologies should be united, and point out some areas where this 'marriage' will have a non-trivial impact: choice of end points, style of outcome recording, adaptive designs, and style of result presentation. Special attention is given to the decision-analytic setting of research priorities, the role of utility calculus in quantifying the ethical dilemmas that surround clinical trials, and the use of patient attitude towards outcomes of treatment as a covariate in its own right.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0277-6715
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1243-57
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
The marriage of clinical trials and clinical decision science.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Medical Genetics (Biostatistics), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review