Risk and medical decision making
By: by Louis Eeckhoudt.
Series: Studies in risk and uncertainty ;; 14
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Clinical medicine -- Decision making; Clinical medicine -- Decision making -- Mathematical models; Risk management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-133) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Introduction4; title: Part 1: Developments inside the E-U model 7; title: Chapter 2: The case of diagnostic risks in a single risk environment 8; title: Exercises21; title: Chapter 3: The introduction of "comorbidity risks" and the treatment; title: threshold. The notion of prudence28; title: Exercises 38; title: Appendix 1 40; title: Appendix 241; title: Chapter 4: Treatment decisions under therapeutic risks43; title: Section 4.1: Risk neutrality44; title: Section 4.2: Risk aversion 47; title: Section 4.3: Comorbidity (severity) risks49; title: A synthesis of chapter 2 to 454; title: Exercises 55; title: Appendix 357; title: Chapter 5: The value of diagnostic tests (under risk neutrality)59; title: Exercises63; title: Chapter 6: Risk aversion and diagnostic tests65; title: Exercises 77; title: Chapter 7: Comorbidity risks and the value of a test: a short overview 80; title: Exercises86; title: Appendix 4 87; title: Part 2: M.D.M and new models of choice under risk 88; title: Chapter 8: Treatment thresholds and the dual theory of choice under; title: risk 90; title: Exercises 103; title: Chapter 9: Diagnostic tests and the dual theory109; title: Exercises117; title: Conclusions119; title: Appendix 5121; title: Appendix 6127; title: References 132; title: Index13 5.