Medical Decision Making and Decision Analysis
2018
This video is intended to provide an introduction to decision analysis in the context of medicine and public health and includes a discussion of the goals and elements of a decision analysis, introduces the concept of decision trees, and highlights how Markov models can be used to consider more complex disease decisions.
This video is part of the Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with VA Data (HCEA) free course offered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development group focused on cost-effectiveness analysis and budget impact analyses. There were a total of 12 videos produced between January and April 2018.
Other videos in this series include:
- New Recommendations for the Conduct of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health and Medicine
- An Overview of Decision Analysis
- Estimating the Cost of an Intervention
- VA Costs: HERC versus MCA
- Introduction to Effectiveness, Patient Preferences, and Utilities
- Estimating Transition Probabilities for a Model
- Evidence Synthesis to Derive Model Transition Probabilities (Part I - Systematic Literature Review)
- Evidence Synthesis to Derive Model Transition Probabilities (Part II – Quantitative Pooling)
- Sensitivity Analyses
- Budget Impact Analysis
- How Can Cost Effectiveness Analysis be Made More Relevant to U.S. Health Care?
Medical Decision Making and Decision Analysis
Source:
Goldhaber-Fiebert J. Medical Decision Making and Decision Analysis. Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with VA Data (HCEA). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development 2018. https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/archives/video_archive.cfm?SessionID=2402