{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-medical-decision-making-volume-1-and-2-9781412953726","title":"Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making (Volume 1 and 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecision making is a critical element in the field of medicine that can lead to life-or-death outcomes  yet it is an element fraught with complex and conflicting variables  diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties  patient preferences and values  and costs. Together  decisions made by physicians  patients  insurers  and policymakers determine the quality of health care  quality that depends inherently on counterbalancing risks and benefits and competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy versus optimizing quality of life or quality of care versus economic realities.  Broadly speaking  concepts in medical decision making (MDM) may be divided into two major categories: prescriptive and descriptive. Work in the area of prescriptive MDM investigates how medical decisions should be done using complicated analyses and algorithms to determine cost-effectiveness measures  prediction methods  and so on. In contrast  descriptive MDM studies how decisions actually are made involving human judgment  biases  social influences  patient factors  and so on. The Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making gives a gentle introduction to both categories  revealing how medical and healthcare decisions are actually madeand constrainedand how physician  healthcare management  and patient decision making can be improved to optimize health outcomes.  Key Features Discusses very general issues that span many aspects of MDM  including bioethics; health policy and economics; disaster simulation modeling; medical informatics; the psychology of decision making; shared and team medical decision making; social  moral  and religious factors; end-of-life decision making; assessing patient preference and patient adherence; and more Incorporates both quantity and quality of life in optimizing a medical decision Considers characteristics of the decisionmaker and how those characteristics influence their decisions Presents outcome measures to judge the quality or impact of a medical decision Examines some of the more commonly encountered biostatistical methods used in prescriptive decision making Provides utility assessment techniques that facilitate quantitative medical decision making Addresses the many different assumption perspectives the decision maker might choose from when trying to optimize a decision Offers mechanisms for defining MDM algorithms  With comprehensive and authoritative coverage by experts in the fields of medicine  decision science and cognitive psychology  and healthcare management  this two-volume Encyclopedia is a must-have resource for any academic library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279807471669,"sku":"ByrdShop_1412953723","price":45.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781412953726.jpg?v=1780611336","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/encyclopedia-of-medical-decision-making-volume-1-and-2-9781412953726","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}