Decision Making in Health Care - Theory, Psychology, and Applications

Decision making is a crucial element in the field of medicine. The physician has to determine what is wrong with the patient and recommend treatment, while the patient has to decide whether or not to seek medical care, and go along with the treatment recommended by the physician. Health policy makers and health insurers have to decide what to promote, what to discourage, and what to pay for. Together, these decisions determine the quality of health care that is provided. Decision Making in Health Care is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the field of medical decision making - a rapidly expanding field that includes quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved. Contents
Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Introduction Gretchen B. Chapman and Frank Sonnenberg
2. Decision modeling techniques Mark S. Roberts and Frank Sonnenberg
3. Utility assessment under expected utility and rank dependent utility assumptions John Miyamoto
4. Evidence-based medicine John P. A. Ioannidis and Joseph Lau
Part II. Health Policy and Economics: 5. Linking health policy modeling with health policy formation and implementation David B. Matchar and Greg P. Samsa
6. Cost-effectiveness analysis Louis B. Russell
Part III. Psychology of Medical Decision Making: 7. Cognitive processes and biases in medical decision making Gretchen B. Chapman and Arthur S. Elstein
8. Physician judgments of uncertainty Neal V. Dawson
9. Bioethics and medical decision making: what can they learn from each other? Joshua Cohen, David Asch and Peter Ubel
10. Team medical decision making Caryn Christensen and Ann S. Abbott
Part IV. Applications: 11. Assessing patients preferences Anne M. Stiggelbout
12. Applying utility assessment at the bedside Mary K. Goldstein and Joel Tsevat
13. Advances in presenting health information to patients Holly Brugge Jimison and Paul Phillip Sher
14. Computer-assisted clinical decision support Antoine Geissbuhler and Randolph A. Miller
15. Opportunities for applying psychological theory to improve medical decision making: two case histories Robert M. Hamm, Dewey C. Scheid, Wally R. Smith and Thomas G. Tape.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Gretchen B. Chapman, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Edited by: Frank A. Sonnenberg, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey