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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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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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.