Internet Access to Calculators for Common Decision Analytic Concepts

5/13/99

Presented as part of panel session on
"Aeromedical Applications of the Internet"
presented at the Aerospace Medical Association annual meeting,
May 20, 1999, Detroit Michigan

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Table of Contents

Internet Access to Calculators for Common Decision Analytic Concepts

Clinical Decision Making Calculators

Example: 2 by 2 table showing test - disease relationship

Example: Single PSA test

This produces a 2 by 2 table

These statistics can be calculated from the 2 by 2 table

Characteristics and uses

Guiding Principles for Development of the CDM Calculators

Distribution Options

Internet download

Advantages of Internet Download of Spreadsheet

Disadvantages of Internet Download

Web Based Calculator

Example: Body Mass Index Calculator

The program defined <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

The program used

Apply this approach to 2 by 2 table of disease/test relation.

Improvements needed

What is possible? State of the art calculators

Conclusions

Author: Rob Hamm

Email: Robert-Hamm@ouhsc.edu

Home Page: http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/index.htm