Surgery
Volume 133, Issue 1 , Pages 1-4 , January 2003

Decision analysis models: Opening the black box

,Accepted 26 September 2002.

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☆☆ Reprint requests: John D. Birkmeyer, MD, Section of General Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756.

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