DECISION MAKING IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION AND MEDICAL CARE

Medical Decision Making Simulation Modeling and Health-care Decision Making on Behalf Of: Society for Medical Decision Making

s of Health Care Management Studies were reviewed. From the years 1982 through 1992, the abstracts were reviewed by one of the authors and more than 50 papers from potentially relevant abstracts were obtained and considered for inclusion. The references from the initial collection of articles were also reviewed to identify potentially relevant publications. Simulation is a broad term for a sear...

From Medical Decision-making to Medical-cost-comparative Decision-making.

WHEN A PHYSICIAN GATHERS A PATIENT’S history, runs diagnostic tests and performs an evaluation, he or she is performing medicine’s most fundamental act: medical decision-making. Patient care is all about physicians bringing their education, training and personal experience to bear with a particular patient and his or her particular symptoms, disease or injury. Frequently, the course of treatmen...

Decision making in medical domains

Methods developed in the field of artificial intelligence and especially in machine learning have seen an increasing popularity among professionals in the medical domain. Medical doctors are often faced with decisions regarding the treatments their patients should undertake and AI has developed specific techniques that can suggest the most fortunate choices based on past experience. During my s...

Medical Decision Making using

Bayesian Belief Networks (bbns) play a relevant role in the eld of Artiicial Intelligence in Medicine and they have been successfully applied to a wide variety of medical domains. An appealing character of bbns is that they easily extend into a complete decision-theoretic formalism known as Innuence Diagrams (ids). Unfortunately, bbns and ids require a large amount of information that is not al...

Ethical Decision-Making in Library Administration