Decision Making in Health and Medicine

By: M.G. Myriam Hunink Milton C. Weinstein Eve Wittenberg Michael F. Drummond Joseph S. Pliskin John B. Wong and Paul P. Glasziou and M.G. Myriam Hunink and Milton C. Weinstein and Eve Wittenberg and Michael F. Drummond and Joseph S. Pliskin and John B. Wong

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Synopsis: Decision making in health care means navigating through a complex and tangled web of diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. In addition, medical therapies may include side effects, surgery may lead to undesirable complications, and diagnostic technologies may produce inconclusive results. In many clinical and health policy decisions it is necessary to counterbalance benefits and risks, and to trade off competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy vs optimizing quality of life vs minimizing the required resources. This textbook plots a clear course through these complex and conflicting variables. It clearly explains and illustrates tools for integrating quantitative evidence-based data and subjective outcome values in making clinical and health policy decisions. An accompanying CD-ROM features solutions to the exercises, PowerPoint® presentations of the illustrations, and sample models and tables.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781316055212
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 10/02/14
Copyrighted By:: Cambridge University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Psychology, Education, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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