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Introduction
Part I
Expected Value Decision Making
Case Study 2: Patient History
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Assigning Utility
Expected Value and QALYs
Sensitivity Analysis
Conclusions: Case Study 2
Part III

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Chapter 14: Tools for Decision Making: Using a Decision Tree
        

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Selection AThe sum of the life expectancies (LE) of each outcome at the chance node, divided by the number of outcomes at that chance node

 

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The correct answer is: (C).

The value of the probability represented by # is 1 minus the sum of the probabilities of the other events at the chance node. In this case, it is 1 minus 0.05 or 0.95.





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