Understanding Advanced Prostate Cancer Decision Making Utilizing an Interactive Decision Aid

Pharmacoeconomics--an aid to better decision-making.

OBJECTIVES The first aim of this workshop was to define pharmacoeconomic concepts and terminology. Pharmacoeconomics can be defined as the branch of economics that uses cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, cost-minimization, cost-of-illness and cost-utility analyses to compare pharmaceutical products and treatment strategies. Economic evaluations provide healthcare decision-makers with valuable in...

Decision-making in Prostate Cancer Treatment

Today, most men who have localized prostate cancer at diagnosis and who undergo either active surveillance or curative treatment can expect to have a disease-specific survival of at least 10 years2–4. Even men with metastatic disease can expect increased survival as new therapeutic agents become available and alternative regimes for existing treatments are tried5,6. Those facts, combined with a...

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Using decision trees to aid decision-making in nursing.

This article discusses judgement and decision-making in nursing. It outlines an approach to analysing clinical problems known as decision analysis. It suggests decision analysis can be a useful technique for nurses to assist them with decision-making in practice.

Chaos in Human Beings: An Aid for Medical Decision Making

Physiologically the frequency distribution of biological data of living systems may be approximated by a lognormal curve, pathologically by a normal = bell curve. The Chi-square and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests are used for the data analysis. A chaos is the most frequent abnormal result. We investigated in 492 chaotically regulated patients 6 important diagnoses: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Guill...