{"product_id":"medical-decision-making-9781119627807","title":"Medical Decision Making","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMEDICAL DECISION MAKING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetailed resource showing how to best make medical decisions while incorporating clinical practice guidelines and decision support systems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir William Osler, a legendary physician of an earlier era, once said, \"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.\" In Osler's day, and now, decisions about treatment often cannot wait until the diagnosis is certain. \u003ci\u003eMedical Decision Making\u003c\/i\u003e is about how to make the best possible decision given that uncertainty. The book shows how to tailor decisions under uncertainty to achieve the best outcome based on published evidence, features of a patient's illness, and the patient's preferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical Decision Making \u003c\/i\u003edescribes a powerful framework for helping clinicians and their patients reach decisions that lead to outcomes that the patient prefers. That framework contains the key principles of patient-centered decision-making in clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSince the first edition of Medical Decision Making in 1988, the authors have focused on explaining key concepts and illustrating them with clinical examples. For the Third Edition, every chapter has been revised and updated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by four distinguished and highly qualified authors, \u003ci\u003eMedical Decision Making\u003c\/i\u003e includes information on: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to consider the possible causes of a patient's illness and decide on the probability of the most important diagnoses.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to measure the accuracy of a diagnostic test.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to help patients express their concerns about the risks that they face and how an illness may affect their lives.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to describe uncertainty about how an illness may change over time.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to construct and analyze decision trees.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to identify the threshold for doing a test or starting treatment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to apply these concepts to the design of practice guidelines and medical policy making.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMedical Decision Making\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable resource for clinicians, medical trainees, and students of decision analysis who wish to fully understand and apply the principles of decision making to clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold C. Sox\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael C. Higgins\u003c\/b\u003e is Adjunct Professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas K. Owens\u003c\/b\u003e is a general internist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine, and Director of Stanford Health Policy, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGillian Sanders Schmidler\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Population Health Sciences and Medicine at Duke University and Deputy Director of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Durham, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50398645682450,"sku":"9781119627807","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1d158e37-c728-48ec-b25f-684636391d96.jpg?v=1729076214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/medical-decision-making-9781119627807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}