Judgment in Medicine

Judgment in medicine.

Evidence-based medicine and clinical judgment: an imaginary divide.

CREDIBLE ECOLOGICAL INFERENCE FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: Formalizing Clinical Judgment

This paper studies an identification problem that arises when clinicians seek to personalize patient care by making health risk assessments conditional on observed patient attributes. Let y be a patient outcome of interest and let (x = k, w = j) be patient attributes that a clinician observes. The clinician may want to choose a care option that maximizes the patient's expected utility condition...

Cowboy medicine or good clinical judgment? Testing minimalism.

MEDICINE & HEALTH/RHODE ISLAND know if I learned anything other than when I make a clinical decision to NOT test, I should be pretty sure of what I’m doing. But I think I knew that before. My next case was a true teaching case. An 80-year old man who had suffered with Parkinson’s disease for over 30 years, now almost completely mute and wheelchair bound, but with only mild cognitive impairment,...

Judgment

The concept of a judgment as a logical action which introduces new information into a deductive system is examined. This leads to a way of mathematically representing implication which is distinct from the familiar material implication, according to which “If A then B” is considered to be equivalent to “B or not-A”. This leads, in turn, to a resolution of the paradox of the raven.