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	<title>Making Medical Decisions</title>
	<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com</link>
	<description>The blog for the forthcoming book "Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide" by Alan Schwartz and George Bergus (Cambridge University Press, 2008)</description>
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		<title>Decisões Médicas Baseadas em Evidências</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The translation of Medical Decision Making: A Physician&#8217;s Guide into Portuguese has been published by Guanabara Koogan SA as Decisões Médicas Baseadas em Evidências (&#8220;Medical decisions based on evidence&#8221;), which is an interesting spin on the book. Of course, we&#8217;re interested in decisions based on values at least as much as evidence, but I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2010/dmbe/</link>
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		<title>Review in Annals of Internal Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This only came to my attention today, but MDM:APG was reviewed in Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading journal in the field, in March 2009. You can read the review online here.
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		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/review-in-annals-of-internal-medicine/</link>
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		<title>Mammography and decision making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little history for the non-US readers: the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent panel that reviews evidence and issues recommendations for preventive health care services.  They are sponsored by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) but the panelists are physicians, nurses, and public health researchers  employed by universities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/mammography-and-decision-making/</link>
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		<title>Helping students unlock the mysteries of Bayes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am continually impressed by the link between seeing and understanding. This should not be surprising. How often have we had the experience of being told by a student (or colleague) that “I just don’t see it” after our failed attempts to explain a complex concept. If there is a relationship between seeing and understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/helping-students-unlock-the-mysteries-of-bayes/</link>
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		<title>Review of MDM:APG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doody&#8217;s Review Service, widely used by medical libraries, now has the first formal review of Medical Decision Making: A Physician&#8217;s Guide. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
&#8220;a thoughtful exposition of the breadth of the medical decision issues to which the analyses of decision theory have often been applied. The authors&#8217; approach to medical decision making ensures that readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/review-of-mdmapg/</link>
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		<title>Internet-based decision aids and a new blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Paciotti&#8217;s blog The Internet and the Geography of Medicine came to our attention when he recently published a nice review of some of the current knowledge about patient decision aids, and argued for the development of internet-based tools for medical decision making (full disclosure: he also said nice things about our book). Dr. Paciotti [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/internet-based-decision-aids-and-a-new-blog/</link>
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		<title>Lessons outside health care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SMDM Annual Meeting Co-chairs Alan Schwartz and Brendan Delaney are pleased to announce the 2009 Annual Meeting will include a pre-meeting symposium on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Hollywood, California, USA, titled, Getting Tools Used: Lessons from outside health care.

Session Description
Will decision aids have a vital role in health care reform? Patient decision support tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/lessons-outside-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Decision making and comparative effectivness research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had planned to write a post pointing to the new background paper on comparative effectiveness research by the Society for Medical Decision Making, which I think does a very good job of explaining the purpose and practices of such research and debunking several myths.
I had also planned to let people know about SMDM President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/decision-making-and-comparative-effectivness-research/</link>
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		<title>Decision psychology and swine flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behavioral economist (and 2009 President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making) Dan Ariely appeared on NPR&#8217;s Marketplace to discuss reasons for the swine flu panic. Read or listen to the interview here.
He focuses on the difference between the value of an identified life and a statistical life, as well as the impact of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/decision-psychology-and-swine-flu/</link>
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		<title>MD NetGuide and risk communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cover story in the March 2009 issue of MD NetGuide is &#8220;The Risk of Risk: Explaining Difficult Concepts to Patients&#8220;, by G. Stephen Nace, a physician at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria who I recently had the pleasure to meet. Making Medical Decisions is prominently cited in the piece.
The article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2009/md-netguide-and-risk-communication/</link>
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