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Stephen G. Pauker
Researcher at Tufts Medical Center
Publications - 269
Citations - 24203
Stephen G. Pauker is an academic researcher from Tufts Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Decision analysis & Cost effectiveness. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 269 publications receiving 23206 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen G. Pauker include University of Illinois at Chicago & Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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What to do when the patient outlives the literature, or DEALE-ing with a full deck.
Saul V. Moroff,Stephen G. Pauker +1 more
TL;DR: A 95-year-old semiretired lawyer who had continuing responsibilities to two elderly siblings, he expressed a desire to live a few more years if he could do so with reasonable comfort, and was advised to undergo surgical resection of the lesion.
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Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in a 53-year-old woman. Is a kidney biopsy necessary?
TL;DR: A 53-year-old woman was admitted to New England Medical Center with nephrotic syndrome and was given propranolol and achieved good control of her blood pressure.
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Competing rates of risk in a patient with subarachnoid hemorrhage and myocardial infarction: it's now or never.
TL;DR: The question of the optimal timing for surgery in an elderly woman with a recent myocardial infarction is addressed anditivity analyses addressed when elective surgery might be feasible and alternative rates of decline for these risks.
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Medical Decision Making: How Patients Choose
TL;DR: In this supplement to the Journal, 8 papers report on the DECISIONS Study, a retrospective survey of 3 important scenarios of choice: medication initiation, cancer screening, and elective surgery, and 8 papers consider patient-centered care and the results and limitations of the DECisIONS Study.
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Prescriptive models to support decision making in genetics.
TL;DR: Decision trees provide a convenient formalism for structuring diagnostic, therapeutic and reproductive decisions; such trees can also enhance communication between clinicians and patients.