Medical Decision Making A Health Economic Primer /

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision making under uncertainty by combining Test Information Theory with Expected Utility Theory. 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 trea...

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Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Felder, Stefan (Συγγραφέας), Mayrhofer, Thomas (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Έκδοση:2nd ed. 2017.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Basic Tools in Medical Decision Making
  • Preferences, Expected Utility, Risk Aversion and Prudence
  • Treatment Decisions Without Diagnostic Tests
  • Treatment Decisions with Diagnostic Tests
  • Treatment Decisions Under Comorbidity Risk
  • Optimal Strategy for Multiple Diagnostic Tests
  • The Optimal Cutoff Value of a Diagnostic Test
  • A Test's Total Value of Information
  • Valuing Health and Life
  • Imperfect Agency and Non-expected Utility Models.