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Jerome P. Kassirer
Researcher at Tufts University
Publications - 299
Citations - 15861
Jerome P. Kassirer is an academic researcher from Tufts University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Decision analysis. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 297 publications receiving 15363 citations. Previous affiliations of Jerome P. Kassirer include Wellesley College & Yeshiva University.
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The threshold approach to clinical decision making.
TL;DR: Using the concepts of decision analysis, expressions for two threshold probabilities involved in the choice of whether to withhold treatment, obtain more data by testing, or treat without subjecting the patient to the risks of further diagnostic tests are derived.
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Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest A Policy Proposal for Academic Medical Centers
Troyen A. Brennan,David J. Rothman,Linda L. Blank,David Blumenthal,Susan Chimonas,Jordan J. Cohen,Janlori Goldman,Jerome P. Kassirer,Harry R. Kimball,James Naughton,Neil Smelser +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a policy under which academic medical centers would take the lead in eliminating the conflicts of interest that still characterize the relationship between physicians and the health care industry.
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Alternative Medicine--The Risks of Untested and Unregulated Remedies
Marcia Angell,Jerome P. Kassirer +1 more
TL;DR: Alternative medicine (now often called complementary medicine) is a remarkably heterogeneous group of theories and practices — as disparate as homeopathy, therapeutic touch, imagery, and herbal medicine.
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A convenient approximation of life expectancy (the “DEALE”): II. Use in medical decision-making
TL;DR: The DEALE method is used to obtain approximations of quality-adjusted life expectancy and the application of the method in a quantitative analysis of a clinical decision is illustrated.
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Therapeutic decision making: a cost-benefit analysis.
TL;DR: The technic not only exposes some of the basic principles of therapeutic decision making in the face of diagnostic uncertainty but also forms a convenient framework for analyzing the impact of "soft" clinical data on the decision-making process.