Medical decision making a health economic primer

This textbook offers a comprehensive theory of medical decision making under uncertainty, combining informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis. The book shows how the parameters of Bayes? theorem can be combined with a value function of health states to arrive at informed test and...

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Main Authors:	Felder, Stefan (Author), Mayrhofer, Thomas (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink
Format:	Electronic Resource
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg Imprint: Springer [©2011.]
Subjects:	Medicine > Decision making. Decision Support Techniques. Diagnosis. Decision making. Diagnostic Tests, Routine > Economics. Diagnostic Tests, Routine > Statistics & numerical data. Medical economics .
Online Access:	Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access