Medical Decision Making: The Family–Doctor–Patient Triad

Medical Decision Making: The Family–Doctor–Patient Triad

Fawad Aslam, Omar Aftab, Naveed Z. Janjua The importance of a person-centred approach and the intricacies of risk communication have recently been well described in PLoS Medicine [1,2]. The applicability of the patient-centred approach to Eastern countries, however, has cultural, religious, and practical impediments that demand careful consideration. The bulk of the world population lives outsi...

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...

Medical Decision Making using

Bayesian Belief Networks (bbns) play a relevant role in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence in Medicine and they have been successfully applied to a wide variety of medical domains. An appealing character of bbns is that they easily extend into a complete decision-theoretic formalism known as Innuence Diagrams (ids). Unfortunately, bbns and ids require a large amount of information that is not al...

Medical Decision Making and the Counting of Uncertainty Running title : Ye ; Medical decision making and uncertainty

Medical Decision Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning

After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions: • How is the concept of probability useful for understanding test results and for making medical decisions that involve uncertainty? • How can we characterize the ability of a test to discriminate between disease and health? • What information do we need to interpret test results accurately? • What is expected-value dec...