This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Abstract Details

Activity Number: 540
Type: Roundtables
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Health Policy Statistics Section
Abstract - #309365
Title: A Statistician at the Policy Table: Integrating Modeling in the Development of Public Health Guidelines
Author(s): Ruth Etzioni*+
Companies: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Address: 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109,
Keywords: public health policy ; computer modeling ; early detection ; cost-benefit analysis ; prostate cancer
Abstract:

A key product of evidence-based medicine is the publication of national policies for disease control, providing guidance to clinicians and the public about options for prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Policy development generally takes the form of a group decision making process, in which an interdisciplinary panel of subject-area experts integrates many studies of diverse quality and attempts to make intelligent inferences from imperfect and incomplete evidence. In this presentation I will relate my experiences as a statistician on two national guidelines panels for the early detection of prostate cancer. I will argue that statisticians can play a critically important role as members of policy panels and will provide a vision for and an example of how we can use modeling to aid panel members as they weigh the quantitative tradeoffs of competing public health policies.


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