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ArticleMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2015

Value of Information: We've Got Speed, What More Do We Need?

Nicky J Welton, Howard H Z Thom

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Article in Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Simulating Study Data to Support Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations: A Tutorial.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
    Article
  3. Multilevel and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods for the Calculation of the Expected Value of Partial Perfect Information.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
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  4. Calculating the Expected Value of Sample Information in Practice: Considerations from 3 Case Studies.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020
    Article
  5. Value of Information Analytical Methods: Report 2 of the ISPOR Value of Information Analysis Emerging Good Practices Task Force.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2020
    Review
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  7. A Gaussian Approximation Approach for Value of Information Analysis.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nicky J WeltonSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (NJW, HHZT)
Howard H Z ThomSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (NJW, HHZT)

Funding

Medical Research Council G0802413Medical Research Council MR/K025643/1Medical Research Council MR/L004933/1Medical Research Council MR/L004933/1-R54
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Decision Support TechniquesLinear ModelsRegression AnalysisStatistics, NonparametricCost-Benefit AnalysisHumans

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