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Root Causes of Sentinel Events

Link to Others

In addition, to the following links please consult the links presented within each topic.

• Evidence based studies of quality
• Gustafson DH, Holloway DC. 1975. "A Decision Theory Approach to Measuring Severity of Illness." Health Services Research 10: 97‑196.

• Gustafson DH, Fryback DG, Rose JH, Prokop CT, Detmer DE, Rossmeissl JC, Taylor CM, Alemi F, Carnazzo AJ.. 1983. "An Evaluation of Multiple Trauma Severity Indices Created by Different Index Development Strategies." Medical Care 21: 674‑91.

• Gustafson DH, Fryback DG, Rose JH, Yick V, Prokop CT, Detmer DE, Moore J. 1986. "A Decision Theoretic Model for Severity Index Development." Medical Decision Making 6 (1): 27‑35.

• Coughlin, Michael T. MA. Angus, Derek C. MD, MPH. Economic evaluation of new therapies in critical illness. Critical Care Medicine. 31(1) Supplement:S7-S16, January 2003.   Accession Number: 00003246-200301001-00002

• Imasogie, Ngozi. Chung, Frances. Effect of return hospital visits on economics of ambulatory surgery. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology. 14(5):573-578, October 2001. Accession Number: 00001503-200110000-00020

• Sachdeva, Ramesh C. MD, PhD, MBA. Measuring the impact of new technology: An outcomes-based approach. Critical Care Medicine. 29(8) Supplement:N190-N195, August 2001.   Accession Number: 00003246-200108001-00008

• Paton, Calum R. Evidence-Based Health Care: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions. BMJ. 318(7177):201, January 16, 1999. Accession Number: 00002591-199901160-00088

• Fleisher, Lee A. MD. Mantha, Srinivas MD. Roizen, Michael F. MD. Medical Technology Assessment: An Overview. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 87(6):1271-1282, December 1998.   Accession Number: 00000539-199812000-00012

• For a review of progress in understanding psychological aspects of decision making see:  Mellers, B. A.. Schwartz, A.. Cooke, A. D. J.. Judgment and Decision Making. Annual Review of Psychology. 49(1998):447-477, Annual 1998.   Accession Number: 00000689-199800000-00017

• Hatcher, Simon Dr, MRCPsych. Decision Analysis in Psychiatry. British Journal of Psychiatry. 166(2):184-190, February 1995. Accession Number: 00002405-199502000-00005

• Frisch, Deborah 1,3. Clemen, Robert T. 2. Beyond Expected Utility: Rethinking Behavioral Decision Research. Psychological Bulletin. 116(1):46-54, July 1994. Accession Number: 00006823-199407000-00005

• Kleinmuntz, Benjamin 1,2. Why We Still Use Our Heads Instead of Formulas: Toward an Integrative Approach. Psychological Bulletin. 107(3):296-310, May 1990.  Accession Number: 00006823-199005000-00002

• Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM).
• Decision Analysis Society
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Society for Judgment and Decision-Making (JDM)
• Society for Mathematical Psychology (SMP)
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
• American Statistical Association Section on Risk Analysis
• European Association of Decision Making (EADM)
• International Society for Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
• Society for Risk Analysis
• ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
• Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
• American Risk and Insurance Association
• Public Choice Society
• Decision Sciences Institute

• A glossary of commonly used terms in Medical Decision Making.

• A tutorial application of concepts of decision analysis to clinical settings. 

• Other Decision Analysis courses
• History of Economic Thought web pages on Choice Under Risk and Uncertainty
• Annotated references on decision theory and uncertainty compiled by Peter Wakker
• Internet resources for geo-information-based decision analysis
• Economist Jokes
• How to Perform a Decision Analysis A five-part tutorial from Medical Decision Making on performing and presenting decision analyses

• Say, Rebecca E medical student 1. Thomson, Richard professor of epidemiology and public health 2. The importance of patient preferences in treatment decisions-challenges for doctors. BMJ. 327(7414):542-545,   Accession Number: 00002591-200309060-00031

• Coffey, J. Todd,  Brandle, Michael,  Zhou, Honghong,  Marriott, Deanna Burke, Ray MA Tabaei, Bahman P.  Engelgau, Michael M.  Kaplan, Robert M. Herman, William H. MD, MPH  Valuing Health-Related Quality of Life in Diabetes. Diabetes Care 25(12): 2238-2243, December 2002.  Accession Number: 00003458-200212000-00020

• Larrabee, June H. PhD, RN. Bolden, Lois V. RN, MSN. Knight, Marie Ray RN, MSN. The lived experience of patient prudence in health care. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 28(4):802-808, October 1998.   Accession Number: 00004471-199810000-00040

• Gold, Marthe R. MD, MPH. Franks, Peter MD. McCoy, Kristine I. MPH. Fryback, Dennis G. . Toward Consistency in Cost-Utility Analyses: Using National Measures to Create Condition-Specific Values. Medical Care. 36(6):778-792, June 1998. Accession Number: 00005650-199806000-00002

• Nease RF Jr, Kneeland T, O'Connor GT, et al. Variation in patient utilities for outcomes of the management of chronic stable angina. Implications for clinical practice guidelines. Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. JAMA 1995;273:1185.  Accession Number: 00005407-199504190-00023

• Links to online databases of Quality of Life analyses

• Read more about how to search for an agreement between two constituents using utility models.  Coombs, in an address ti American Psychological Association in 1986, identifies different kinds of conflict and an algorithm for screening options to select an optimum set. 

• Laffel, Lori M.B. MD, MPH. Connell, Alexa BA. Vangsness, Laura BA. Goebel-Fabbri, Ann PHD. Mansfield, Abigail MA. Anderson, Barbara J. PHD. General Quality of Life in Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: Relationship to patient management and diabetes-specific family conflict. Diabetes Care. 26(11):3067-3073, November 2003.   Accession Number: 00003458-200311000-00016

• HEWISON, ALISTAIR RGN BSc MA PhD 1. STANTON, ANGELA RGN MA PhD 2. From conflict to collaboration? Contrasts and convergence in the development of nursing and management theory (2). Journal of Nursing Management. 11(1):15-24, January 2003  Accession Number: 00019040-200301000-00006. 

• HEWISON, ALISTAIR RGN, BSC, MA, PHD 1. STANTON, ANGELA RGN, MA, PHD 2. From conflict to collaboration? Contrasts and convergence in the development of nursing and management theory (1). Journal of Nursing Management. 10(6):349-355, November 2002  Accession Number: 00019040-200211000-00007

• Fetters, Michael D. MD, MPH, MA. Churchill, Larry PhD. Danis, Marion MD. Conflict resolution at the end of life. Critical Care Medicine. 29(5):921-925, May 2001.  Accession Number: 00003246-200105000-00001

• Way, Jenny resident in internal medicine. Back, Anthony L associate professor of medicine. Curtis, J Randall associate professor of medicine. Withdrawing life support and resolution of conflict with families. BMJ. 325(7376):1342-1345, December 7, 2002.   Accession Number: 00002591-200212070-00031.

•  Sensky, Tom reader in psychological medicine. Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment : Patients' autonomy and values conflict with the responsibilities of clinicians. BMJ. 325(7357):175-176, July 27, 2002.  Accession Number: 00002591-200207270-00003

• Guzzo, Richard A.. Dickson, Marcus W.. Teams in Organizations: Recent Research on Performance and Effectiveness. Annual Review of Psychology. 47(1996):307-338, Annual 1996.   Accession Number: 00000689-199600000-00011

• Strube, Michael J 1,2. The Decision to Leave an Abusive Relationship: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Issues. Psychological Bulletin. 104(2):236-250, September 1988.   Accession Number: 00006823-198809000-00005

• Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR)

• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)

• Conflict Resolution Information Source (CRInfo.org)

• International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

• National Association For Community Mediation (NAFCM)

• Network of Communities for Peace-Making & Conflict Resolution (NCPCR)

• Section of Dispute Resolution - American Bar Association

• United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA)

• Program for health care negotiations at Harvard

• Renegotiating health care. 

• National patient safety foundation

• Best of the web on decision tree links