After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions: • How is the concept of probability useful for understanding test results and for making medical decisions that involve uncertainty? • How can we characterize the ability of a test to discriminate between disease and health? • What information do we need to interpret test results accurately? • What is expected-value dec...

The strongest argument for shared decision making is that patients have a fundamental right to understand all the reasonable medical options and the arguments for and against each option. Simply put, informing and involving patients in medical decisions is the right thing to do. The majority of people want to make decisions about their health care -rather than be told what to do or make decisio...

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...

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...

introduction: it has been found that the decision-making process in medicine is affected, to a large extent, by one’s experience, individual mentality, previous models, and common habitual approaches, in addition to scientific principles. evidence-based medicine is an approach attempting to reinforce scientific, systematic and critical thinking in physicians and provide the ground for optimal d...

background in medical practice, the dissatisfaction of patients about medical decisions made by doctors is often regarded as the fuse of doctor-patient conflict. however, a few studies have looked at why there are such dissatisfactions. objectives this experimental study aimed to explore the discrepancy between attitude and behavior within medical situations and its interaction with framing des...