Defining undertreatment and overtreatment in older adults with cancer: a scoping literature review

C DuMontier, KP Loh, PA Bain, RA Silliman… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The terms undertreatment and overtreatment are often used to describe
inappropriate management of older adults with cancer. We conducted a comprehensive …

Decision making in older adults with cancer

C DuMontier, KP Loh… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
Significant progress has been made toward improving the care of older adults with cancer.
As described elsewhere in this Special Series, the evidence base in geriatric oncology has …

The future of community psychiatry and community mental health services

A Rosen, NS Gill… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
We should adopt a health ecosystems approach to mental healthcare and training,
encompassing nano to macrolevels of service in every region. Catchment mental health …

Patients, doctors and risk attitudes

N Makins - Journal of medical ethics, 2023 - jme.bmj.com
A lively topic of debate in decision theory over recent years concerns our understanding of
the different risk attitudes exhibited by decision makers. There is ample evidence that risk …

Banning colistin in feed additives: a small step in the right direction

AO Olaitan, I Dandachi, SA Baron, Z Daoud… - Lancet Infect …, 2021 - kukr.lib.ku.ac.th
beta lactamase AmpC; colistin; extended spectrum beta lactamase; food additive; growth
promotor; mcr 1 protein; unclassified drug; antiinfective agent; agricultural worker; …

Evidence-based medicine in times of crisis

B Djulbegovic, G Guyatt - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2020 - jclinepi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the world's worst public health threat since the 1918 flu
pandemic. Infected persons face the prospect of serious pneumonia, progression to critical …

Learning" what-if" explanations for sequential decision-making

I Bica, D Jarrett, A Hüyük, M van der Schaar - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Building interpretable parameterizations of real-world decision-making on the basis of
demonstrated behavior--ie trajectories of observations and actions made by an expert …

Improving methods of clinical practice guidelines: From guidelines to pathways to fast‐and‐frugal trees and decision analysis to develop individualised patient care

B Djulbegovic, I Hozo, A Cuker… - Journal of Evaluation in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Current methods for developing clinical practice guidelines have several
limitations: they are characterised by the “black box” operation—a process with defined …

Pain: Persistent postsurgery and bone cancer-related pain

L Feller, RAG Khammissa… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The generation of neuropathic pain is a complex dynamic process. Factors involved include
one or more dysregulated sensory neural pathways; dysregulated activity of specific …

Transforming clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways into fast‐and‐frugal decision trees to improve clinical care strategies

B Djulbegovic, I Hozo, W Dale - Journal of evaluation in clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Contemporary delivery of health care is inappropriate in many ways, largely
due to suboptimal Q5 decision‐making. A typical approach to improve practitioners' decision …