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Medical decision making : a physician's guide / Alan Schwartz, George Bergus.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Alan, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Decision making.
- Medicine.
- Decision Making.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Informed Consent.
- Patient Participation.
- Treatment Outcome.
- Medical Subjects:
- Decision Making.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Informed Consent.
- Patient Participation.
- Treatment Outcome.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Decision-making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialized skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgment and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision-making process.
- This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision-making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field. It considers issues of patient goals, uncertainty, judgment, choice, development of new information, and family and social concerns in healthcare. It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation.
- Contents:
- Goals and objectives
- Components of health
- The overall health state
- Quality and quantity
- Embracing uncertainty
- Chance and choice
- Confidence
- Visualizing decisions
- The power of information
- Screening and testing
- Family matters
- Public health
- Social values.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521697699
- 0521697697
- OCLC:
- 213008225
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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