Use of Influence Diagrams to Structure Medical Decisions.
Influence diagrams offer several strengths for structuring medical decisions.
They represent graphically and compactly the probabilistic relationships between parameters in the model. Influence diagrams also allow the model to be structured in a fashion that eases the necessary probability assessments, regardless of whether the assessments are based on available evidence or on expert judgment. Influence diagrams provide an important complement to decision trees, especially for representing probabilistic relationships among variables in a decision model. PDF readers are available .