Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications
Decisions made by physicians, patients, health policy makers and health insurers determine the quality of health care that is needed and provided for. This up-to-date, comprehensive overview of medical decision making reveals a rapidly expanding field. The book covers quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-64159-4
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Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications
Decisions made by physicians, patients, health policy makers and health insurers determine the quality of health care that is needed and provided for. This up-to-date, comprehensive overview of medical decision making reveals a rapidly expanding field. The book covers quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-64159-4
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Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications

Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications

Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications

Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications

Overview

Decisions made by physicians, patients, health policy makers and health insurers determine the quality of health care that is needed and provided for. This up-to-date, comprehensive overview of medical decision making reveals a rapidly expanding field. The book covers quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-64159-4

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521541244
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2003
Series: Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 454
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Introduction Gretchen B. Chapman and Frank Sonnenberg; 2. Decision modeling techniques Mark S. Roberts and Frank Sonnenberg; 3. Utility assessment under expected utility and rank dependent utility assumptions John Miyamoto; 4. Evidence-based medicine John P. A. Ioannidis and Joseph Lau; Part II. Health Policy and Economics: 5. Linking health policy modeling with health policy formation and implementation David B. Matchar and Greg P. Samsa; 6. Cost-effectiveness analysis Louis B. Russell; Part III. Psychology of Medical Decision Making: 7. Cognitive processes and biases in medical decision making Gretchen B. Chapman and Arthur S. Elstein; 8. Physician judgments of uncertainty Neal V. Dawson; 9. Bioethics and medical decision making: what can they learn from each other? Joshua Cohen, David Asch and Peter Ubel; 10. Team medical decision making Caryn Christensen and Ann S. Abbott; Part IV. Applications: 11. Assessing patients' preferences Anne M. Stiggelbout; 12. Applying utility assessment at the 'bedside' Mary K. Goldstein and Joel Tsevat; 13. Advances in presenting health information to patients Holly Brugge Jimison and Paul Phillip Sher; 14. Computer-assisted clinical decision support Antoine Geissbuhler and Randolph A. Miller; 15. Opportunities for applying psychological theory to improve medical decision making: two case histories Robert M. Hamm, Dewey C. Scheid, Wally R. Smith and Thomas G. Tape.
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