Clinical Decision Analysis
1980
This text was conceived and developed in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at the Center for the Analysis of Health Practices. The book had its origins in a set of classroom materials developed during the academic year 1974-75 for an elective course in medical decision making at the Harvard Medical School. In this book students are shown how to structure clinical decision problems, how to systematically formulate the intertwining roles of diagnosis and treatment, how to incorporate hard data and soft intuition in probabilistic calculations, how to formalize the combined objectives of doctor, patient, and society, and how to use analyses to help, but not to dictate, the choice of a final decision.
Chapters include:
Each chapter contains a summary, clinical examples and practice exercises.
- Ch 1: The Elements of Clinical Decision Making
- Ch 2: Structuring Clinical Decisions under Uncertainty
- Ch 3: Probabilities and Clinical Decisions
- Ch 4: The Use of Diagnostic Information to Revise Probabilities
- Ch 5: The Value of Clinical Information
- Ch 6: Sources of Probabilities
- Ch 7: Utility Analysis: Clinical Decisions Involving Many Possible Outcomes
- Ch 8: Clinical Decisions and Constrained Resources
- Ch 9: Applications of Clinical Decision Analysis
- Ch 10: Advantages, Shortcomings, and Ethical Implications
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Source:
Weinstein MCW, Fineberg HV, Elstein AS et al. Clinical Decision Analysis. W.B. Saunders Company 1980.