BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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Optimal management of adults with pharyngitis – a multi-criteria decision analysis

Sonal Singh1, James G Dolan2 and Robert M Centor3*

  • * Corresponding author: Robert M Centor rcentor@uab.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA.

2 Department of Medicine, Unity Health System and the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

3 Department of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006, 6:14 doi:10.1186/1472-6947-6-14

Published: 13 March 2006

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summarizing the data used for the analysis.

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summarizing the pairwise comparisons made among the expected outcomes of the alternative management strategies in the baseline analysis.

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summarizing data used for the 20% Group A streptococcal prevalence population sensitivity analysis.

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summarizing the pairwise comparisons made among the expected outcomes of the alternative management strategies in the 20% Group A streptococcal prevalence analysis.

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illustrating the results of the one-way sensitivity analyses regarding the relative priorities of avoiding over-use versus under-use of antibiotics.

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