Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis : methods for quantitative synthesis in medicine / Diana B. Petitti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petitti, Diana B.

Series:

Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; v. 31.

Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cost effectiveness.

Medicine--Decision making.

Medicine.

Meta-analysis.

Statistical decision.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this 2nd edition Petitti has added new material on cumulative meta-analysis and the exploration of heterogeneity, incorporated recommendations for standardizing the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis, and updated the rest of the text.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Three Illustrative Problems; 1.2 Definitions; 1.3 Historical Perspective; 1.4 Linkages of the Three Methods; 1.5 Organization of the Book; 2 Overview of the Methods; 2.1 Meta-Analysis; 2.2 Decision Analysis; 2.3 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; 3 Planning the Study; 3.1 Defining the Problem; 3.2 Developing a Study Protocol; 3.3 Acquiring Resources; 3.4 Procuring Administrative Approvals; 4 Information Retrieval; 4.1 Overall Strategy for Retrieving Information from Published Studies; 4.2 Computerized Searches of MEDLINE; 4.3 Other Computer-Stored Databases

4.4 Limitations of Computerized Searches of Computer-Stored Databases4.5 Publication Bias; 5 Data Collection; 5.1 Overall Goals; 5.2 Reliability; 5.3 Validity; 5.4 Bias; 6 Advanced Issues in Meta-Analysis; 6.1 Defining Eligibility Criteria and Determining Eligibility of Individual Studies; 6.2 Study Design; 6.3 Inclusive Dates of Publication; 6.4 English-Language Publications; 6.5 Multiple Publications from the Same Study Population; 6.6 Restrictions on Sample Size or Length of Follow-Up; 6.7 Eligibility Based on Similarity of Treatments (or Exposures) or Outcomes

6.8 Completeness of Information6.9 Choosing Estimates of Effect Within Eligible Studies; 6.10 Study Quality; 7 Statistical Methods in Meta-Analysis; 7.1 Goals of Meta-Analysis and the Problem of Heterogeneity; 7.2 Choice of Effect Measure; 7.3 Mantel-Haenszel Method; 7.4 Peto Method; 7.5 General Variance-Based Methods; 7.6 General Variance-Based Methods That Use Confidence Intervals; 7.7 Statistical Tests of Homogeneity; 7.8 DerSimonian and Laird Method; Appendix; 8 Other Statistical and Methodologic Issues in Meta-Analysis; 8.1 Measures on a Continuous Scale

8.2 Trend or ""Dose Response"" Analysis8.3 Vote Counting and Related Methods; 8.4 Statistical Approaches to Publication Bias; 8.5 Cumulative Meta-Analysis; 8.6 Meta-Analysis of Individual Level Data; 9 Complex Decision Problems; 9.1 More Than Two Alternative Treatments or Interventions; 9.2 More Than One Outcome; 9.3 Many Intervening Events; 9.4 Estimating Life Expectancy; 9.5 Markov Models; 10 Estimating Probabilities; 10.1 Overall Goals; 10.2 Relying on Selected Published Sources of Information on Probabilities; 10.3 Aggregating Information from Multiple Published Sources

10.4 Experts as Sources of Probability Estimates10.5 Personal Experience and ""Guessing"" to Estimate Probabilities; 10.6 Accounting for Uncertainty in Probability Estimates; 11 Measuring Preferences for Health States; 11.1 The Concept of Utility; 11.2 Conceptual Issues in the Measurement of Preferences for Health States; 11.3 Developing Measurement Scales in Practice; 11.4 Use of Generic Measures of Health-Related Quality of Life as Preference Measures; 11.5 Limitations of Measures of Preferences for Health States; 12 Advanced Cost-Effectiveness Analysis; 12.1 Types of Economic Evaluation

12.2 Key Concepts

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-974785-7

9786610833467

1-280-83346-7

OCLC:

748540386