Medical Decision Making A Health Economic Primer /

• Main Authors: Felder, Stefan (Author), Mayrhofer, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Epidemiology.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Economics.; Health Economics.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This textbook offers a comprehensive theory of medical decision making under uncertainty, combining informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis. The book shows how the parameters of Bayes’ theorem can be combined with a value function of health states to arrive at informed test and...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Basic Tools in Medical Decision Making
• 3 Expected Utility, Risk Aversion and Prudence
• 4 Treatment Decisions Without Diagnostic Tests
• 5 Treatment Decisions with Diagnostic Tests
• 6 Treatment Decisions Under Comorbidity Risk
• 7 Optimal Strategy for Multiple Diagnostic Tests
• 8 The Optimal Cutoff Point of a Diagnostic Test
• 9 A Test's Total Value of Informations
• 10 Valuing Health and Life
• 11 Conclusion. .