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The Hippocratic Oath, Effect Size, and Utility Theory
Robert F. Bordley*
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: robert.bordley{at}gm.com.
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To be consistent with the Hippocratic Oath, this article pro-life circumstances of the patient, need not reflect the poses that a physician choose that treatment that has the patient’s utility function. This Hippocratic utility function greatest chance of giving the patient an outcome no worse can be estimated with an effect size measure similar to the than the uncertain outcome an untreated patient would stochastic superiority and common language effect size experience. As this article shows, this specifies the utility measures used in the statistical analysis of experiments. function that the physician should use in choosing among Key words: ethics; effect size; utility; decision making; statreatments. This utility function, although varying with the tistics in medicine. (Med Decis Making XXXX;XX:xx–xx)
First published on April 20, 2009, doi:10.1177/0272989X09333128
Medical Decision Making 2009;29:377.
A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009
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