Medical decision making

The first application of the Gaussian distribution is in medical decision making or diagnosis. We wish to determine whether a patient is at risk because of the high cholesterol content of his blood. We need several pieces of input information an expected or normal blood cholesterol, the standard deviation associated with the normal blood cholesterol count, and the blood cholesterol count of the patient. When we apply our analysis, we shall anive at a diagnosis, either yes or no, the patient is at risk or is not at risk. 

D. Coomans and I. Broeckaert, Potential Pattern Recognition in Chemical and Medical Decision Making. Wiley, Chichester, 1986. 

Medical treatment guidelines Here we are faced with the decision as to which medicine to recommend for a particular treatment. These guidelines are usually the result of a consensus between experts and they are intended to influence medical decision-making. Insofar as consensus guidelines can also take into consideration economic matters, again we are led to the question should/can economic evaluation play a part in this ... 

The Acceptability of Race and Ethnicity in Medical Decision Making... 

BrophyJM, Joseph L. Medical decision making with incomplete evidence—choosing a platelet glycoprotein Ilbllla receptor inhibitor for percutaneous coronary interventions. Med DecisMaking. 2005 25 222-228. 

Parmigiani Modeling in Medical Decision Making A Bayesian Approach Senn Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research, Second Edition Senn Statistical Issues in Drug Development... 

In clinical practice, and in the era of cost-effectiveness, the use of meta-analysis as a tool to aid medical decision making and imderpinning evidence-based medicine is here to stay. 

Hupert, N, Mushlin, AI, Callahan, MA. Modeling the Public Health Response to Bioterrorism Using Discrete Event Simulation to Design Antibiotic Distribution Centers. Medical Decision Making 22(Suppl.) S17-S25, 2002... 

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Sox HC, Blatt MA, Higgins MC, Marton KI, eds. Medical decision making. Stoneham MA Butter-worths, 1988. 

Essential to a partnership in medical decision making is the necessity that each patient realigns his or her own approach toward health and the healthcare system. Currently, our Western culture advertises and promotes poor choices in lifestyle that ultimately result in burgeoning healthcare expenditures. Fundamental to this new paradigm of healthcare is the requirement that individuals take responsibility for their own wellness, making healthy choices concerning nutrition, physical activity, and response to stressful situations. 

F. A. Sonnenberg and J. R. Beck, Markov models in medical decision making a practical gnide. Med Decis Making 13 322-338 (1993). 

D. J. Rothman. 1991. Strangers at the Bedside A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making. New York Basic Books. 

Rittenhouse BE (1997) Exorcising protocol-induced spirits making the clinical trial relevant for economics. Medical Decision Making 17 331-339. 

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