[PDF] An Introduction To Medical Decision Making eBook

Author : Harold C. Sox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1118341562

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Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with a powerful framework for helping patients make decisions that increase the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that are most consistent with their preferences. This new edition provides a thorough understanding of the key decision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making both for individual patients and the wider health care arena. It shows how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies. Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for all experienced and learning clinicians who wish to fully understand and apply decision modelling, enhance their practice and improve patient outcomes. “There is little doubt that in the future many clinical analyses will be based on the methods described in Medical Decision Making, and the book provides a basis for a critical appraisal of such policies.” - Jerome P. Kassirer M.D., Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, US and Visiting Professor, Stanford Medical School, US

Author : Jonathan S. Vordermark II
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 303023147X

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This volume presents novel concepts to help physicians and health care providers better understand the thought processes and approaches used in clinical decision-making and how we develop those skills as we transition from being a medical student to post-graduate trainee to independent practitioner. Approaches presented range from simple rules of thumb, pattern recognition, and heuristics, to more formulaic methods such as standard operating procedures, checklists, evidence-based medicine, mathematical modeling, and statistics. Ways to recognize and manage errors and how our decision-making can be improved, are also discussed. An Introduction to Medical Decision-Making presents several innovative techniques to allow the reader to use the principles presented and integrate the ethical, humanistic and social aspects of decision-making with the pragmatic and knowledge-based aspects of clinical medicine. It also highlights how our thinking processes, emotions, and biases affect decision-making. This invaluable resource will allow students and physicians to evaluate and critically discuss their decisions objectively to become more efficient and effective, and maximize the quality of care they provide.

Author : Michael W. Kattan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1281 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1412953723

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The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts sorting out findings on medical decision making and their applications.

Author : M. G. Myriam Hunink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107690471

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A guide for everyone involved in medical decision making to plot a clear course through complex and conflicting benefits and risks.

Author : Michael W. Kattan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1281 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1452261490

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Decision making is a critical element in the field of medicine that can lead to life-or-death outcomes, yet it is an element fraught with complex and conflicting variables, diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. Together, decisions made by physicians, patients, insurers, and policymakers determine the quality of health care, quality that depends inherently on counterbalancing risks and benefits and competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy versus optimizing quality of life or quality of care versus economic realities. Broadly speaking, concepts in medical decision making (MDM) may be divided into two major categories: prescriptive and descriptive. Work in the area of prescriptive MDM investigates how medical decisions should be done using complicated analyses and algorithms to determine cost-effectiveness measures, prediction methods, and so on. In contrast, descriptive MDM studies how decisions actually are made involving human judgment, biases, social influences, patient factors, and so on. The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making gives a gentle introduction to both categories, revealing how medical and healthcare decisions are actually made—and constrained—and how physician, healthcare management, and patient decision making can be improved to optimize health outcomes. Key Features Discusses very general issues that span many aspects of MDM, including bioethics; health policy and economics; disaster simulation modeling; medical informatics; the psychology of decision making; shared and team medical decision making; social, moral, and religious factors; end-of-life decision making; assessing patient preference and patient adherence; and more Incorporates both quantity and quality of life in optimizing a medical decision Considers characteristics of the decisionmaker and how those characteristics influence their decisions Presents outcome measures to judge the quality or impact of a medical decision Examines some of the more commonly encountered biostatistical methods used in prescriptive decision making Provides utility assessment techniques that facilitate quantitative medical decision making Addresses the many different assumption perspectives the decision maker might choose from when trying to optimize a decision Offers mechanisms for defining MDM algorithms With comprehensive and authoritative coverage by experts in the fields of medicine, decision science and cognitive psychology, and healthcare management, this two-volume Encyclopedia is a must-have resource for any academic library.

Author : Gretchen B. Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521541244

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Decision Making in Health Care, first published in 2000, is a comprehensive overview of the field of medical decision making.

Author : Vacslav Glukhov
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2015-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781515112020

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Value edition: black&white. The book presents a new, broad, pragmatic, and accessible introduction to the probabilistic decision making methodology in standard medical applications. With the aid of several relevant and practical examples of probabilistic inference in medicine, the book examines how probabilistic decision theory helps incorporate individual preferences, values, and risk tolerance into quantitative medical decision making. The book is structured as an easy to read collection of essays. It starts with an overview of medical science and daily medical practice and examines how medicine differs from engineering and from hard sciences such as physics and chemistry. The book proceeds to show how probabilistic decision making framework in medicine is capable of incorporating the uncertainty and complexity of medical outcomes, and the inescapable influence of individual and institutional values and preferences. The book demonstrates how to embrace these distinct characteristics of medical science and practice and incorporate them into the decision making process. It shows that realistic and practical methods of probabilistic inference could be used to build predictive distributions of observable events, and how the concept of subjective utilities could assist in choosing the best possible course of action. The book also explores the differences between the patient-centric and the population-centric approach in medical decision making. The book examines the problem of medical trial planning and execution, and the problem of mass screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer from the decision making perspective.

Author : Vacslav Glukhov
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781515108641

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Value edition: black&white. The book presents a new, broad, pragmatic, and accessible introduction to the probabilistic decision making methodology in standard medical applications. With the aid of several relevant and practical examples of probabilistic inference in medicine, the book examines how probabilistic decision theory helps incorporate individual preferences, values, and risk tolerance into quantitative medical decision making. The book is structured as an easy to read collection of essays. It starts with an overview of medical science and daily medical practice and examines how medicine differs from engineering and from hard sciences such as physics and chemistry. The book proceeds to show how probabilistic decision making framework in medicine is capable of incorporating the uncertainty and complexity of medical outcomes, and the inescapable influence of individual and institutional values and preferences. The book demonstrates how to embrace these distinct characteristics of medical science and practice and incorporate them into the decision making process. It shows that realistic and practical methods of probabilistic inference could be used to build predictive distributions of observable events, and how the concept of subjective utilities could assist in choosing the best possible course of action. The book also explores the differences between the patient-centric and the population-centric approach in medical decision making. The book examines the problem of medical trial planning and execution, and the problem of mass screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer from the decision making perspective.