Medical Decision Making
2013
This new edition of Medical Decision Making provides a review of the key decision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making both for individual patients and the wider health care arena. Targeted to clinicians interested in medical decision making, it demonstrates how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies.
Chapters include, each of which includes a summary and practice exercises:
- Ch 1: Introduction
- Ch 2: Differential Diagnosis
- Ch 3: Probability: Quantifying Uncertainty
- Ch 4: Understanding New Information: Bayes’ Theorem
- Ch 5: Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Information
- Ch 6: Expected Value Decision Making
- Ch 7: Markov Models and Time-Varying Outcomes
- Ch 8: Measuring the Outcome of Care
- Ch 9: Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests
- Ch 10: CEA and Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Ch 11: Medical Decision Analysis: Advanced Methods
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Source:
Sox HC, Higgins MC, Owens DK. Medical Decision Making, 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell 2013. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470658665.html