Detailed resource showing how to best make medical decisions while incorporating clinical practice guidelines and decision support systems 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. The text provides a thorough understanding of the key decision-making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making for both individual patients and the wider healthcare 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. This newly revised and updated Third Edition includes updates throughout the text, especially concerning new developments in big data. Theory on writing guidelines is included as a practical tool for practitioners in the field. Written by three distinguished and highly qualified authors, Medical Decision Making includes information on: <ul> <li>How to be consider possible causes of a patient's problems, and how to characterize information gathered during medical interviews and physical examinations</li> <li>Bayes' theorem, covering its assumption, using it to interpret a sequence of tests, and using it when many diseases are under consideration</li> <li>How to describe test results (abnormal and normal, positive and negative), and measuring a test's capability to reveal the patient's true state</li> <li>Decisions trees, selecting a decision maker, quantifying uncertainty, expected value calculations, and sensitivity analysis</li> </ul> Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for a wide range of general practitioners and clinicians, as well as medical trainees at intermediate and advanced levels, who wish to fully understand and apply decision modeling, enhance their practice, and improve patient outcomes.

Medical Decision Making

Medical Books

Sox, Harold C.

Higgins, Michael C.

Owens, Douglas K.

Sanders Schmidler, Gillian

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

Since it was first published in 1988, Medical Decision Making has become the world-wide standard textbook for medical decision making. Written to meet the needs of medical students and experienced clinicians alike, this book is a clearly presented, step-by-step guide to understanding how, through the processes of decision analysis, a physician can reach valid, reasoned conclusions about medical treatment despite imperfect information about the patient. The focus of Medical Decision Making is on estimating probability, measuring the inaccuracy of clinical data, and interpreting new information, then making choices: should the patient be treated, should more information be obtained, or should nothing be done? The authors make extensive use of clinical examples to illustrate Bayesian analysis, formal decision analysis, and basic concepts of how to evaluate the usefulness of diagnostic tests in various situations. The text is supplemented with many illustrations, useful end-of-chapter self-assessment questions, an appendix giving the sensitivity and specificity of nearly 100 diagnostic tests, and a selective annotated bibliography directing the reader to significant articles in the current literature

Literature & Fiction

Sox, Hal

Blatt, Marshal A.

Marton, Keith I.

Literary

Amer College of Physicians

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