Medical Decision Making (eBook)

Harold C. Sox, Michael C. Higgins, Douglas K. Owens (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-34156-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book clearly demonstrates how to best make medical decisions while incorporating clinical practice guidelines and decision support systems for electronic medical record systems.

New to this edition is how medical decision making ideas are being incorporated into clinical decision support systems in electronic medical records and also how they are being used to shape practice guidelines and policies.

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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

Autor

Harold C. Sox Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire Michael C. Higgins Stanford University, Stanford, California Douglas K. Owens Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California; Stanford University, Stanford, California

Inhalt

Foreword - Jerome Kassirer

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Differential Diagnosis

Chapter 3: Probability: Quantifying Uncertainty

Chapter 4: Understanding New Information: Bayes' Theorem

Chapter 5: Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Information

Chapter 6: Expected Value Decision Analysis

Chapter 7: Markov Models and Time-Varying Outcomes

Chapter 8: Measuring the Outcome of Care

Chapter 9: Selection and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests

Chapter 10: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter 11: Medical Decision Making In Practice: Advanced Methods

Index

Rezensionen

"Every physician is confronted daily with decision making. This book teaches the scientific principles of making decisions in clinical practice. For academic teachers." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, 1 September 2014)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Schlagworte: available • Best • Clinical • Clinical Skills • Clinicians • Decision • Decisions • Edition • Entscheidung (Med.) • Evidence • Framework • Gesundheitspolitik, Risiken, Sicherheit des Patienten • Guidelines • Health Policy, Health Risk & Patient Safety • Infrastructure • Key • Klinische Fertigkeiten • likelihood • Medical • Medical Science • Medizin • New • patients • Powerful • Practice • Principles • provides
• ISBN-10: 1-118-34156-2 / 1118341562
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-34156-8 / 9781118341568