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Barbara J. McNeil
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 281
Citations - 53254
Barbara J. McNeil is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Pulmonary embolism. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 281 publications receiving 50409 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara J. McNeil include Brigham and Women's Hospital & Washington University in St. Louis.
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The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
TL;DR: A representation and interpretation of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve obtained by the "rating" method, or by mathematical predictions based on patient characteristics, is presented and it is shown that in such a setting the area represents the probability that a randomly chosen diseased subject is (correctly) rated or ranked with greater suspicion than a random chosen non-diseased subject.
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A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases.
TL;DR: This paper refines the statistical comparison of the areas under two ROC curves derived from the same set of patients by taking into account the correlation between the areas that is induced by the paired nature of the data.
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On the Elicitation of Preferences for Alternative Therapies
TL;DR: It is suggested that an awareness of variations in the way information is presented to patients influence their choices between alternative therapies could help reduce bias and improve the quality of medical decision making.
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Patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality care.
Paul D. Cleary,Barbara J. McNeil +1 more
TL;DR: In this review of the theoretical and empirical work on patient satisfaction with care, the most consistent finding is that the characteristics of providers or organizations that result in more "personal" care are associated with higher levels of satisfaction.
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Primer on Certain Elements of Medical Decision Making
TL;DR: Principals of statistical decision theory and information theory suggest technics for objectively determining these cutoff points, depending upon whether the physician is concerned with health costs, with financial costs, or with the information content of the test.