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The Problem of Embedded Decision Nodes in Cost-Effectiveness Decision Trees

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  1. WinDM is freely available at http://windm.simpal.com. The latest version of the software was built in 2010; the latest version of the manual was written in 2007.

  2. See https://www.treeage.com.

  3. The tree in Fig. 1 is available at http://www.cisiad.uned.es/techreports/cea-multidec.php in two formats: WinDM and TreeAge Pro. The reader can evaluate them with these programs and check that they return the results mentioned in this section.

  4. See http://www.openmarkov.org/cea.

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The authors thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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No competing financial interests exist. This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education of Science under grants TIN2006-11152 and TIN2009-09158, and by the Health Institute Carlos III of the Spanish Government under Grant PI13/02446.

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Arias, M., Díez, F.J. The Problem of Embedded Decision Nodes in Cost-Effectiveness Decision Trees. PharmacoEconomics 32, 1141–1145 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-014-0195-1

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