Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values 2nd Edition – Ebook PDF Version

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107690471
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107690479
• Author: M. G. Myriam Hunink

Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and service costs must be considered. Decisions in clinical and health policy require careful weighing of risks and benefits and are commonly a trade-off of competing objectives: maximizing quality of life vs maximizing life expectancy vs minimizing the resources required. This text takes a proactive, systematic and rational approach to medical decision making. It covers decision trees, Bayesian revision, receiver operating characteristic curves, and cost-effectiveness analysis; as well as advanced topics such as Markov models, microsimulation, probabilistic sensitivity analysis and value of information analysis.

Table contents:

1 Elements of decision making in health care

2 Managing uncertainty

3 Choosing the best treatment

4 Valuing outcomes

5 Interpreting diagnostic information

6 Deciding when to test

7 Multiple test results

8 Finding and summarizing the evidence

9 Constrained resources

10 Recurring events

11 Estimation, calibration, and validation

12 Heterogeneity and uncertainty

13 Psychology of judgment and choice