Book
Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide
Cambridge University Press
05/26/2008
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511722080
Abstract
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 specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement 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, judgement, 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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide
- Creators
- Alan Schwartz - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGeorge Bergus - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book
- DOI
- 10.1017/CBO9780511722080
- ISBN
- 9780521697699; 0521697697
- eISBN
- 0511722087; 9780511722080
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- xix, 211 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/26/2008
- Academic Unit
- Physician Assistant Studies; Psychiatry; Family and Community Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984280831502771
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