Decision analysis and its application in clinical medicine

Decision analysis is increasingly used to address difficult medical problems. Case-by-case models designed for individual patients facing complex trade-offs in their medical care often help individual clinical decision making, but are expensive and time consuming. On the other hand, generic models a...

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Published inEuropean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 172 - 179
Main Author Sarasin, François P
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.02.2001
Elsevier
Subjects
Anticoagulants - therapeutic use
Biological and medical sciences
Blood. Blood coagulation. Reticuloendothelial system
Clinical Medicine
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Decision analysis
Decision Support Techniques
Decision tree
Hemorrhage
Humans
Life Expectancy
Medical sciences
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Quality of Life
Quality-adjusted life expectancy
Therapeutics
Thromboembolism
Treatment Outcome
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Life expectancy
Decision analysis
Decision tree
Quality-adjusted life expectancy
Human
Medicine
Chemotherapy
Treatment
Anticoagulant
Models
Therapeutic protocol
Cost efficiency analysis
Quality of life
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Summary:Decision analysis is increasingly used to address difficult medical problems. Case-by-case models designed for individual patients facing complex trade-offs in their medical care often help individual clinical decision making, but are expensive and time consuming. On the other hand, generic models addressing broad clinical questions that can be adapted from one patient to another, can often make valid projections about specific outcomes, such as life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, and cost-effectiveness issues, and represent a useful approach to clinical decision making.
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ISSN:0301-2115
1872-7654
DOI:10.1016/S0301-2115(00)00299-2