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Data-driven thresholds are imperfect, & need to adjust over time as we amass new data & face new variants. But they're a start and an opportunity to be explicit about our goals at this stage of the pandemic. +Co-authors: Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH, Emily Kendall, @BenjaminLinas, Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social

1/ Why model masking in schools? Sharing our recent paper led by John Giardina from a decision-science perspective. …network-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/journals/jaman…. Work by Alyssa Bilinski, Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick, Emily Kendall, @BenjaminLinas, Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social

Great thread on how a decision model can be useful when there are things we don’t know. We often need to make a decision without knowing everything we’d like to, and models can help clarify how that uncertainty impacts the outcomes we care about.

My latest: Two new studies aim to answer school leaders’ questions on what unmasking will mean to new COVID case counts the74million.org/article/as-two… The 74 John Giardina The ABC Science Collaborative

Our work on patient preferences for statin therapy found that patient’s desire to take a statin were driven by perceptions of the benefit of a statin, not by their actual cardiovascular disease risk Dr. KD Valentine Karen Sepucha Mongan Institute Read here: rdcu.be/cH2yu

Today in NEJM, Govind Persad (also @govindpersad.bsky.social) and I wrote about how economic evaluation can make decision-making around Covid-related policies more comprehensive and transparent. I've linked to the article here and added a companion thread below. (1/11) nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In Medical Decision Making , Mike Paulden Jinyi Zhu @tara_lavelle Jim Hammitt and I looked at trends in author-reported cost-effectiveness thresholds in the US (1995-2018) and their implications for discount rates for cost and health outcomes #NERDTHREAD journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

So excited to share plans for a short course at Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) w/Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick Joshua Salomon @jsalomon.bsky.social @ADPaltiel: Napkin Math. These days, modelers build a lot of complex, computationally-intensive models. We believe, however, that simple, intuitive ("napkin") models are more important than ever.

🚨Thrilled to see my job market paper out in Annals of Int Med🚨   We evaluate the value of 15 acute ischemic stroke (AIS) quality measures endorsed by American Heart Association American_Stroke, helping prioritize quality improvements in stroke care.   acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… 🧵 1/10

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