Patient Care under Uncertainty / / Charles F. Manski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Manski, Charles F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 4 tables.

How cutting-edge economics can improve decision-making methods for doctorsAlthough uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. Patient Care under Uncertainty strives to correct this glaring omission. Applying the tools of ec...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Introduction
• 1. Clinical Guidelines and Clinical Judgment
• 2. Wishful Extrapolation from Research to Patient Care
• 3. Credible Use of Evidence to Inform Patient Care
• 4. Reasonable Care under Uncertainty
• 5. Reasonable Care with Sample Data
• 6. A Population Health Perspective on Reasonable Care
• 7. Managing Uncertainty in Drug Approval
• Conclusion
• Complement 1A. Overview of Research on Lymph Node Dissection
• Complement 1B. Formalization of Optimal Choice between Surveillance and Aggressive Treatment
• Complement 2A. Odds Ratios and Health Risks
• Complement 3A. The Ecological Inference Problem in Personalized Risk Assessment
• Complement 3B. Bounds on Success Probabilities with No Knowledge of Counterfactual Outcomes
• Complement 4A. Formalization of Reasonable Choice between Surveillance and Aggressive Treatment
• Complement 5A. Treatment Choice as a Statistical Decision Problem
• Complement 6A. Minimax-Regret Allocation of Patients to Two Treatments
• Complement 6B. Derivations for Criteria to Treat X-Pox
• References
• Index