Empowering Health Decisions
Empowering Health Decisions

Author: Jerrold S. Greenberg

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1449617387

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Empowering Health Decisions offers a personal health text focused on essential content for students to assist them in making informed decisions about their health. This text is unique from other personal texts on the market in that it focuses on decision-making models and theories of behavior change. These models are carried throughout each chapter and will describe how it can be used to make health enhancing decisions specific to the chapter content.

Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making

Author: Harold C. Sox

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1118341562

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Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with a powerful framework for helping patients make decisions that increase the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that are most consistent with their preferences. This new edition provides a thorough understanding of the key decision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making both for individual patients and the wider health care arena. It shows how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies. Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for all experienced and learning clinicians who wish to fully understand and apply decision modelling, enhance their practice and improve patient outcomes. “There is little doubt that in the future many clinical analyses will be based on the methods described in Medical Decision Making, and the book provides a basis for a critical appraisal of such policies.” - Jerome P. Kassirer M.D., Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, US and Visiting Professor, Stanford Medical School, US

Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health
Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health

Author: John Armstrong Muir Gray

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 044310123X

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As the demand for health services rises & the pressure on these services grows, decisions about the use of scarce resources are becoming even more difficult to make & more explicit. This text provides healthcare managers with the knowledge they need.

Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making

Author: Alan Schwartz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107320062

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Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision making process. This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field. It considers issues of patient goals, uncertainty, judgement, choice, development of new information, and family and social concerns in healthcare. It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation.

Evidence-based Healthcare
Evidence-based Healthcare

Author: John Armstrong Muir Gray

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780443062889

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The evidence-based medicine movement has been one of the most important influences on medicine in the latter half of the 1990s. This textbook on evidence-based decision-making--basing clinical decisions on the best available evidence from systematic research--is ideal for healthcare, medical, and nurse managers. It explains how evidence-based decision making can be applied to health policy and management decisions about groups of patients and populations, rather than decisions about the treatment of individuals. Its first edition was well reviewed and highly successful, and this new edition builds upon the success of the first.

Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions - BOOK ALONE
Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions - BOOK ALONE

Author: J. Thomas Butler

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1449675433

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Consumer Health: Making Informed Decisions is a concise, current text with the most up-to-date information about health care reform and insurance. It is devoted to the most important issues relative to consumer health issues, including advertising, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, weight management, and medications. There are in-depth analyses of the American health care system, insurance options, and consumer protection. The text also takes a critical look at complementary and alternative therapies. Throughout the text, there are guidelines for making decisions that can benefit the individual. A comprehensive list of learning objectives precede each chapter and a list of study questions conclude each chapter. The questions are designed to help the student summarize the major points of the chapter, prepare for exams, and critically analyze the material contained in the chapters. Instructor Resources: PowerPoint Presentations

Critical Decisions
Critical Decisions

Author: Peter Ubel

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2012-09-26

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1921961260

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Critical Decisions is the most important book on the patient-doctor relationship to date. In this revolutionary book, practicing physician, behavioural scientist, and bioethicist Peter Ubel reveals how hidden dynamics keep us, and our loved ones, from making the best medical choices.

Good Decisions Most of the Time: Because Life Is Too Short Not to Eat Chocolate (More Then Just a Nutrition Book)
Good Decisions Most of the Time: Because Life Is Too Short Not to Eat Chocolate (More Then Just a Nutrition Book)

Author: Danielle Brooks

Publisher: Good Decisions Incorporated

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781938686634

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Get this blueprint on how to make peace with food, achieve the vision of your best self, and live your best life. When Danielle Brooks became a nutritional therapist she was so excited to begin helping people she could hardly restrain herself. She would sit down with a client and customize the perfect diet just for them. Then, two weeks later, her client would return frustrated and upset because they just couldn't do it. This was when she realized she was trained on how to create a diet, not how to help people implement the diet. It wasn't until she was seeing a counselor for personal reasons that she stumbled onto "The Psychology of Food" and discovered the mental aspects of weight loss and behaviors around food. She learned how certain methods and practices could help her clients overcome the mental hurdles involved with sugar cravings and junk food binges. This practice has given her clients immediate results and a "can do" spirit that has been amazing to watch.

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support Healthcare Decisions
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support Healthcare Decisions

Author: Kevin Marsh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319837635

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Representing the first collection on the topic, this book builds from foundations to case studies, to future prospects, providing the reader with a rich and comprehensive understanding of the use of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in healthcare. The first section of the collection presents the foundations of MCDA as it is applied to healthcare decisions, providing guidance on the ethical and theoretical underpinnings of MCDA and how to select MCDA methods appropriate to different decision settings. Section two comprises a collection of case studies spanning the decision continuum, including portfolio development, benefit–risk assessment, health technology assessment, priority setting, resource optimisation, clinical practice and shared decision making. Section three explores future directions in the application of MCDA to healthcare and identifies opportunities for further research to support these.

Knowledge and Decisions in Health Telematics
Knowledge and Decisions in Health Telematics

Author: Pedro Barahona

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9789051991529

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Why and How Will Knowledge Based Systems Become an Established Technology within Health Care? -- Signal and Image Processing Applications -- Future Prospects in ECG Signal Interpretation -- Industrial Perspectives for Research and Development in Knowledge Processing and Decision Support -- Legal Issues Incurred from KBS Use -- Legal Issues in Cognition, Knowledge Processing and Decision Making Techniques in the Health Sector -- Human Intelligence and Computer Intelligence -- Cooperation Between Human Brain and Computer -- Part 3. The EPISTOL Reports -- Munich Workshop -- The Role of Knowledge Based Systems in Clinical Practice -- How Will KBS Techniques Be Incorporated into Commercial Products? -- Trends in Knowledge Based Research that Will Enable its Use in Routine Applications -- Distributed Knowledge Based Systems and Telematics in a Changing Health Care Environment -- Brussels Seminar -- The Brussels Seminar -- Appendices -- Munich Workshop: Participants and Contributors -- Brussels Seminar: Participants and Contributors -- Author Index