Assessing the Efficacy of a CDSS for Breast Cancer
Abstract
The four-year project will develop and test a computer-based decision support system (CDSS) on breast cancer for low-income women who speak English or Spanish. The population that will be included in the study include predominantly African American and Hispanic women. Hispanic women will include a high proportion who speak only Spanish and have only limited English proficiency. Delivery of the educational message will involve use of CD-ROM technology and a personal computer to provide for an interactive learning experience. A unique feature of the project will be the use of decision analysis techniques to assess the effectiveness of the CDSS program in facilitating treatment choices that are most likely to lead to outcomes preferred by patients. The application of decision analysis methods will involve generation of patient-specific utilities that can be plugged into the analytical model for the purpose of comparing descriptive choices--those actually made by women with early stage breast cancer--against prescriptive choices--those that are determined to result in preferred outcomes for an individual patient as determined from application of the modeling program. We are currently conducting the clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of the CDSS program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA407762
Entities
People
- Maria Jibaja-weiss
Organizations
- Baylor College of Medicine