Decision making in health care involves navigating through a complex and tangled web of diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. In many clinical and health policy decisions it is necessary to counterbalance benefits and risks, and to trade off competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy vs optimizing quality of life vs minimizing the resources required. This textbook plots a clear course through these complex and conflicting variables and is designed for practitioners and trainees, and for students studying clinical decision analysis, EB-medicine, and clinical epidemiology.
Preface, 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. Variability and uncertainty, 12. Proactive decision making: a way of life, Index.
Preface, 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. Variability and uncertainty, 12. Proactive decision making: a way of life, Index.