OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Decision Making is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Using QALYs as an Outcome for Assessing Global Prediction Accuracy in Diabetes Simulation Models	98
Discordant Care and Decision Quality: Patients’ Reasons for Not Receiving Their Initial Test of Choice in Colorectal Cancer Screening	85
Capitalizing on Opportunities to Integrate Theory and Practice in Medical Decision Making	45
Validating the Assumptions of Population Adjustment: Application of Multilevel Network Meta-regression to a Network of Treatments for Plaque Psoriasis	29
Health Utilities in People with Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Study Using Real-World Population-Level Data	21
Variation in Patient-Reported Decision-Making Roles in the Last Year of Life among Patients with Metastatic Cancer: A Longitudinal Study	21
A Nonparametric Approach for Estimating the Effective Sample Size in Gaussian Approximation of Expected Value of Sample Information	20
Key Factors in Decision Making for ECLS: A Binational Factorial Survey	19
Comparing Survival Extrapolation within All-Cause and Relative Survival Frameworks by Standard Parametric Models and Flexible Parametric Spline Models Using the Swedish Cancer Registry	17
Stability of Stated Preferences: Vaccine Priority Setting before and during the First COVID-19 Lockdown	17
Abstracts 2022 North American Meeting for the Society of Medical Decision Making, October 23-26, 2022	16
Segmenting the Population and Estimating Transition Probabilities Using Data on Health and Health-Related Social Service Needs from the US Health and Retirement Study	16
Effects of Mitigation and Control Policies in Realistic Epidemic Models Accounting for Household Transmission Dynamics	16
Constrained Optimization for Decision Making in Health Care Using Python: A Tutorial	16
How Do People Process Different Representations of Statistical Information? Insights into Cognitive Effort, Representational Inconsistencies, and Individual Differences	16
Assessing Interventions That Prevent Multiple Infectious Diseases: Simple Methods for Multidisease Modeling	14
45^th Annual North American Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 22-25 October 2023	14
Development of a Microsimulation Model to Project the Future Prevalence of Childhood Cancer in Ontario, Canada	14
Don’t Throw Your Heart Away: Increased Transparency of Donor Utilization Practices in Transplant Center Report Cards Alters How Center Performance Is Evaluated	14
How Much Information Is Too Much? An Experimental Examination of How Information Disclosures May Unintentionally Encourage the Withholding of Health Information	13
Veterans’ Lung Cancer Risk Conceptualizations versus Lung Cancer Screening Shared Decision-Making Conversations with Clinicians: A Qualitative Study	12
End-of-Life Preferences: A Randomized Trial of Framing Comfort Care as Refusal of Treatment in the Context of COVID-19	12
Natural Frequencies Improve Public Understanding of Medical Test Results: An Experimental Study on Various Bayesian Inference Tasks with Multiple Scoring Methods and Non-Bayesian Reasoning Strategies	12
Accurate EVSI Estimation for Nonlinear Models Using the Gaussian Approximation Method	11
Medical Decision Making and MDM Policy & Practice Reviewers, 2023	11

Creating a Real-World Linked Research Platform for Analyzing the Urgent and Emergency Care System	11
Comparative Assessment of Reimbursement Recommendations by NICE and HAS for Oncology New Medicines Indicated for the Treatment of Solid Tumors from 2015 to 2021	11
Approaches to Selecting “Time Zero” in External Control Arms with Multiple Potential Entry Points: A Simulation Study of 8 Approaches	11
Can Machine Learning from Real-World Data Support Drug Treatment Decisions? A Prediction Modeling Case for Direct Oral Anticoagulants	10
Medical Decision Making and MDM Policy & Practice Reviewers, 2022	10
Withdrawing versus Withholding Treatments in Medical Reimbursement Decisions: A Study on Public Attitudes	10
Identifying Decisional Needs for Adult Tracheostomy and Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation Decision Making to Inform Shared Decision-Making Interventions	9
General-Purpose Methods for Simulating Survival Data for Expected Value of Sample Information Calculations	9
Recalibrating an Established Microsimulation Model to Capture Trends and Projections of Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality	9
Collecting Physicians’ Preferences on Medical Devices: Are We Doing It Right? Evidence from Italian Orthopedists Using 2 Different Stated Preference Methods	9
Communicating the Imperfect Diagnostic Accuracy of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Self-Tests: An Online Randomized Experiment	9
Comparison of Preferences and Data Quality between Discrete Choice Experiments Conducted in Online and Face-to-Face Respondents	9
Comparison of Diagnostic Recommendations from Individual Physicians versus the Collective Intelligence of Multiple Physicians in Ambulatory Cases Referred for Specialist Consultation	9
Association between Exposure to Statin Choice and Adherence to Statins: An Observational Cohort Study	8
Developing Economic Models for Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Multiple Diagnostic Tests: Methods and Applications	8
Using a Sample Size Calculation Framework for Clinical Prediction Models When Developing and Selecting Mapping Algorithms Based on Linear Regression	8
Communicating on Vaccine Benefit-Risk Ratios: A Discrete-Choice Experiment among Health Care Professionals and the General Population in France	8
Commentary on History of IPDAS	8
Different Interventions for COVID-19 Primary and Booster Vaccination? Effects of Psychological Factors and Health Policies on Vaccine Uptake	8
A Parsimonious Approach to Remediate Concerns about QALY-Based Discrimination	8
Health Economic Analysis of Antiviral Drugs in the Global Polio Eradication Endgame	8
Efficient Designs for Valuation Studies That Use Time Tradeoff (TTO) Tasks to Map Latent Utilities from Discrete Choice Experiments to the Interval Scale: Selection of Health States for TTO Tasks	8
Dynamics of Respiratory Infectious Diseases in Incarcerated and Free-Living Populations: A Simulation Modeling Study	7
Estimating Change in Health-Related Quality of Life before and after Stroke: Challenges and Possible Solutions	7
Weight Status Transitions and Validation of an Obesity Model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Adolescents	7
Shared Decision Making in Health Care: Theoretical Perspectives for Why It Works and For Whom	7
Shared Decision Making for Elective Surgical Procedures in Older Adults with and without Cognitive Insufficiencies	7
The Role of Smoking Status in Making Risk-Informed Diagnostic Decisions in the Lung Cancer Pathway: A Qualitative Study of Health Care Professionals and Patients	7
Motivated Interpretations of Survival Rates in Icon Arrays: An Issue of Frequency Format?	7
Generating, Presenting, and Interpreting Cost-Effectiveness Results in the Context of Uncertainty: A Tutorial for Deeper Knowledge and Better Practice	7
Constructing Relative Effect Priors for Research Prioritization and Trial Design: A Meta-epidemiological Analysis	7
Modeling Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for Policy and Decision Analysis	7
Optimizing Face Validity and Clinical Relevance of a Mathematical Population Cancer Epidemiology Model Using a Novel Advisory Group Approach	7
Linking Patient Perceptions of Shared Decision Making to Satisfaction in Lung Cancer Screening Decisions	7
Optimal Sample Size Calculation for Clinical Research under a Budget Constraint	6
Nudging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake by Changing the Default: A Randomized Controlled Trial	6
STEER: Open Access Resources for Conducting Structured Expert Elicitation for Health Care Decision Making	6
Identifying Patterns in Preoperative Communication about High-Risk Surgical Intervention: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial	6
Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System	6
Use of Persuasive Language in Communication of Risk during Prostate Cancer Treatment Consultations	6
Evaluating Risk-Stratified HPV Catch-up Vaccination Strategies: Should We Go beyond Age 26?	6
Postpartum Sterilization after a Preterm Delivery Is Not Associated with Decision Regret	6
Medical Decision Style and COVID-19 Behavior	6
Perceptions of COVID-19 Risk: How Did People Adapt to the Novel Risk?	6
Using Standardized Videos to Examine the Validity of the Shared Decision Making Process Scale: Results of a Randomized Online Experiment	6
A Game Theoretic Analysis of Competition Between Vaccine and Drug Companies during Disease Contraction and Recovery	6
So You’ve Got a High AUC, Now What? An Overview of Important Considerations when Bringing Machine-Learning Models from Computer to Bedside	6
A Tutorial on Net Benefit Regression for Real-World Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using Censored Data from Randomized or Observational Studies	5
Optimal Epidemic Control under Uncertainty: Tradeoffs between Information Collection and Other Actions	5
Through the Eyes of Patients: The Effect of Training General Practitioners and Nurses on Perceived Shared Decision-Making Support	5

The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration: Evidence Update 2.0	5
A Prospective Cohort Study of Medical Decision-Making Roles and Their Associations with Patient Characteristics and Patient-Reported Outcomes among Patients with Heart Failure	5
Model-Based ROC Curve: Examining the Effect of Case Mix and Model Calibration on the ROC Plot	5
Toward Transparent Demographic Analyses: Statement on the Use and Reporting of Classification Variables Presented as Measuring Individual Characteristics Such as Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity, National	5
The Effect of Patient Decision Aid Attributes on Patient Outcomes: A Network Meta-Analysis of a Systematic Review	5
Incorporating Social Determinants of Health in Infectious Disease Models: A Systematic Review of Guidelines	5
Use of Advanced Flexible Modeling Approaches for Survival Extrapolation from Early Follow-up Data in two Nivolumab Trials in Advanced NSCLC with Extended Follow-up	5
Closed-Form Solution of the Unit Normal Loss Integral in 2 Dimensions, with Application in Value-of-Information Analysis	5
Physicians under Pressure: Evidence from Antibiotics Prescribing in England	5
Dynamic and Flexible Survival Models for Extrapolation of Relative Survival: A Case Study and Simulation Study	5