Decision Analysis in Individual Clinical Decision Making : A Real-World Application in Treatment of Renal Disease

Autor:	Clyde H. Beck, Joseph S. Pliskin
Rok vydání:	1976
Předmět:	Advanced and Specialized Nursing medicine.medical_specialty Health Information Management Clinical decision making business.industry Medicine Health Informatics Disease business Intensive care medicine Decision analysis
Zdroj:	Methods of Information in Medicine. 15:43-46
ISSN:	2511-705X 0026-1270
DOI:	10.1055/s-0038-1635719
Popis:	The methodological framework of decision analysis is applied to a given physician’s decision making process with respect to a given, identified patient. The paper demonstrates how some of the subjective assessments and value judgments can be systematically incorporated and applied in a real-world setting. Direct subjective assessment of all probabilities was necessary because the specific characteristics of the given patient did not enable use of data in the literature. Explicit tradeoffs between longevity and quality of life were elicited from the decision maker and used in quantifying his relative preferences for the possible outcomes. The paper demonstrates the usefulness of decision analysis in structuring and analyzing a real-world problem, especially one where little or no data are available.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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