Decision analysis in clinical practice

@article{Pliskin1980DecisionAI,
  title={Decision analysis in clinical practice},
  author={Joseph S. Pliskin and Nava Pliskin},
  journal={European Journal of Operational Research},
  year={1980},
  volume={4},
  pages={153-159},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:121088363}
}
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