Cost-effectiveness analysis with unordered decisions

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Highlights：

• Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is used increasingly in medicine.

• Decision trees can only solve small problems (a few variables).

• Influence diagrams cannot solve problems with unordered decisions.

• Decision analysis networks (DANs) are a new type of probabilistic graphical models.

• DANs can perform CEA with unordered decisions for non-trivial problems.

摘要

•Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is used increasingly in medicine.•Decision trees can only solve small problems (a few variables).•Influence diagrams cannot solve problems with unordered decisions.•Decision analysis networks (DANs) are a new type of probabilistic graphical models.•DANs can perform CEA with unordered decisions for non-trivial problems.

论文关键词：Cost-effectiveness analysis,Decision trees,Probabilistic graphical models,Influence diagrams,Decision analysis networks

论文评审过程：Received 1 April 2020, Revised 23 March 2021, Accepted 25 March 2021, Available online 20 April 2021, Version of Record 15 May 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2021.102064