RT Book, Section
A1 Greenberg, Raymond S.
A1 Daniels, Stephen R.
A1 Flanders, W. Dana
A1 Eley, John William
A1 Boring, John R.
SR Print(0)
ID 546337
T1 Chapter 12. Clinical Decision-Making
T2 Medical Epidemiology, 4e
YR 2005
FD 2005
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071416375
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RD 2024/04/19
AB Decision  analysis  is  a  formal  process  used  to  determine  the  preferred  course  of  action  from  two  or  more  potential  approaches  to  clinical  management.  Decision  analysis  is  most  appropriate  when  there  is  both  some  uncertainty  about  the  preferred  course  of  action  and  a  meaningful  trade-off  of  risks  and  benefits  for  the  alternative  management  strategies.  A  decision  tree  or  decision  diagram  is  the  underlying  structure  of  the  clinical  situation,  including  all  uncertainties  and  choices,  as  well  as  all  outcomes.  The  expected  utility  is  the  estimated  typical  or  average  outcome  for  a  population  of  patients  managed  with  a  particular  strategy.  Substituting  a  range  of  values  for  a  particular  probability  in  a  decision  tree  and  determining  the  impact  on  the  expected  utility  is  referred  to  as  a  sensitivity  analysis.