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, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Statistics.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Economics.; Health Economics.; Public Health.; Health Care Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.