INFORMS Open Forum

Happy holidays from Decision Analysis! I'm pleased to share our December issue, a special issue on Emerging Topics in Health Decision Analysis, for your holiday (or post-holiday) reading pleasure: https://pubsonline.informs.org/toc/deca/current.  First, huge thanks to the guest editors, Elisa Long of UCLA, Gilberto Montibeller of Loughborough University, and Jun Zhuang of the University at Buffalo.  They contributed their perspective on the field at https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/deca.2022.0460.  Five additional papers shared new research:

1) "Optimizing the First Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-Based Markov Decision Process Model" by Erik Rosenstrom, Sareh Meshkinfam, Julie Simmons Ivy, and Shadi Hassani Goodarzi (North Carolina State), Muge Capan (U Mass Amherst), Jeanne Huddleston (Mayo Clinic), Santiago Romero-Brufaue (Harvard School of Public Health)

2) "Balanced Opioid Prescribing via a Clinical Trade-Off: Pain Relief vs. Adverse Effects of Discomfort, Dependence, and Tolerance/Hypersensitivity" by Abdullah Gokcınar, Metin Cakanyıldırım, and Theodore Price (UT Dallas) and Meredith C. B. Adams (Wake Forest Baptist Health) 

3) "Stay Home or Not? Modeling Individuals' Decisions During theCOVID-19 Pandemic" by Qifeng Wan and Xuanhua Xu (Central South University in Changsha, China) and Kyle Hunt and Jun Zhuang (University at Buffalo)

4) "Supporting Innovation in Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Development Decisions" by Florian Methling (RWTH Aachen), Steffen A. Borden (Bayer), Deepak Veeraraghavan and Insa Sommer (Strategic Decisions Group), and Johannes Ulrich Siebert (MCI Management Center, Innsbruck) 

5) "Model Complexity and Accuracy: A COVID-19 Case Study" by Colin Small and J. Eric Bickel (UT Austin) 

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Vicki Bier
Professor Emerita
University of Wisconsin
Madison WI
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