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ArticleMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2020

Calculating the Expected Value of Sample Information in Practice: Considerations from 3 Case Studies.

Anna Heath, Natalia Kunst, Christopher Jackson, Mark Strong, Fernando Alarid-Escudero, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert, Gianluca Baio, Nicolas A Menzies, Hawre Jalal

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Article in Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A Pragmatic Bayesian Adaptive Trial Design Based on the Value of Information: The Value-Driven Adaptive Design.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026
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  3. A Nonparametric Approach for Estimating the Effective Sample Size in Gaussian Approximation of Expected Value of Sample Information.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025
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  4. Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations for Risk Prediction Model Validation.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025
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  5. Accurate EVSI Estimation for Nonlinear Models Using the Gaussian Approximation Method.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2024
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  7. Emerging Therapies for COVID-19: The Value of Information From More Clinical Trials.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2022
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  9. An Efficient Method for Computing Expected Value of Sample Information for Survival Data from an Ongoing Trial.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
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  10. Calculating Expected Value of Sample Information Adjusting for Imperfect Implementation.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
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  11. Expected Value of Sample Information to Guide the Design of Group Sequential Clinical Trials.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
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  12. Value of Information Analysis in Models to Inform Health Policy.Annual review of statistics and its application · 2022
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  13. 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
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  15. Prioritisation and design of clinical trials.European journal of epidemiology · 2021
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  16. A Review of Web-Based Tools for Value-of-Information Analysis.Applied health economics and health policy · 2021
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  19. Computing the Expected Value of Sample Information Efficiently: Practical Guidance and Recommendations for Four Model-Based Methods.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Anna HeathThe Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7263-4251
Natalia KunstDepartment of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Christopher JacksonMRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6656-8913
Mark StrongSchool of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Fernando Alarid-EscuderoCenter for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE).ORCID 0000-0001-5076-1172
Jeremy D Goldhaber-FiebertStanford Health Policy, Centers for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Gianluca BaioUniversity College London, London, UK.
Nicolas A MenziesHarvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Hawre JalalUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8224-6834

Funding

Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR001856 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RAY, KRISTIN N, RUBIO, DORIS M · 2016 to 2025
$13.8M
Comparative Modeling of Colorectal Cancer: Informing Health Policies and Prioritizing Future ResearchU01CA199335 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI KUNTZ, KAREN M, LANSDORP-VOGELAAR, IRIS · 2015 to 2019
$5.5M
Evaluating health and economic effects of targeted strategies in TB/HIVR01AI112438 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI COHEN, THEODORE H, SALOMON, JOSHUA A · 2014 to 2017
$2.4M
Department of Health PDF-2012-05-258Medical Research Council G0601721Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/11Medical Research Council MR/J000434/1NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001856NCI NIH HHS U01 CA199335NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI112438
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Data AccuracyModels, EconomicCase-Control StudiesCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansMonte Carlo Methodcomputation methodsexpected value of sample informationhealth economic decision modellingstudy designvalue of information

Identifiers

PMID32297840
PMCPMC7968749

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