Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making, 2-Volume Set Contributor(s): Kattan, Michael W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1412953723 ISBN-13: 9781412953726 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $499.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Reference - Medical | Clinical Medicine |
Dewey: 610.3 |
LCCN: 2009004379 |
Physical Information: 3.4" H x 8.7" W x 11.3" (8.70 lbs) 1280 pages |
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Publisher Description: Decision 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 made--and constrained--and how physician, healthcare management, and patient decision making can be improved to optimize health outcomes. Key Features
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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kattan, Michael W.: - Michael W. Kattan, Ph.D., is Chairman of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic. He directs a department of 90 professionals who span the areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, health outcomes research and statistical genetics. Previously, he was Associate Attending Outcomes Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Urology at Cornell University. Dr. Kattan has written more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, many explicity dealing with medical decision making, and he serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Medical Decision Making. |