Medical Decision Making

Author: Stefan Felder
Edition: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 3642183298
Category: Medical

Medical Decision Making: A Health Economic Primer

This textbook offers a comprehensive theory of medical decision making under uncertainty, combining informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis. Download Medical Decision Making medical books for free.
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 treatment decisions. The authors distinguish between risk neutral, risk averse and prudent decision makers and demonstrate the effects of risk preferences on physicians' decisions. They analyze individual tests, multiple tests and endogenous tests where the test result is determined by the decision maker. Finally, the topic is examined in the context of health economics by introducing a trade-off between enjoying health and consuming other goods, Get Medical Decision Making our bestseller medical books.

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Finally, the topic is examined in the context of health economics by introducing a trade-off between enjoying health and consuming other goods,

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