Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values
Book Features
- Author: M. G. Myriam Hunink
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0521770297
Book Overview
>>>Decision generating in wellbeing care signifies navigating by means of a complex and tangled net of diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. In addition, medical therapies may well incorporate side effects, surgery might lead to undesirable complications, and diagnostic technologies may possibly create inconclusive results. In several clinical and wellness policy choices it is needed to counterbalance positive aspects and risks, and to trade off competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy vs optimizing quality of life vs minimizing the needed resources. This textbook plots a clear course by way of these complicated and conflicting variables. It clearly explains and illustrates tools for integrating quantitative evidence-based data and subjective outcome values in making clinical and well being policy decisions. An accompanying CD-ROM attributes solutions to the workouts, PowerPoint® presentations of the illustrations, and sample models and tables….
