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| Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values | 
 enlarge | Authors: M. G. Myriam Hunink, Paul P. Glasziou, Joanna E. Siegel, Jane C. Weeks, Joseph S. Pliskin, Arthur S. Elstein, Milton C. Weinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $95.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 232469
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0521770297
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780521770293
ASIN: 0521770297
Publication Date: December 15, 2001
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Product Description
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 Description
Decision making in health care involves navigating through a complex and tangled web of diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. 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 resources required. This textbook plots a clear course through these complex and conflicting variables and is designed for practitioners and trainees, and for students studying clinical decision analysis, EB-medicine, and clinical epidemiology.
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Refreshing Look at Medical Decision Making June 10, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Clearly written! Excellent choice of exercises! This will make a good reading for anyone even remotely interested in making decisions in health care or medicine. The methods and techniques elucidated here will be useful at all levels of the health care system. Get a copy of this book and do not drop it until you've read it all. Probably, the most comprehensible state-of-the-art textbook of medical decision sciences devoid of undue jargon.
Simply excelent !!! June 20, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is the most helpful book on decision processes in health economics and outcomes research. Not alone, it is fully compliant with the TreeAge software as far as terminology is concerned.
Ales Tichopad
CEEOR (Central and Eastern European Outcomes Research)
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