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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Juli 2011
Genre:	Wirtschaft / Recht
ISBN:	9783642183294
EAN-Code:	9783642183294
Verlag:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 241 mm / B 160 mm / D 18 mm
Gewicht:	500 gr
Seiten:	220
Zus. Info:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
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Inhalt:

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 treatment decisions. The authors distinguish between risk neutral, risk averse and prudent decision makers and demonstrate the effects of risk preferences on physicians' decisions. They analyze individual tests, multiple tests and endogenous tests where the test result is determined by the decision maker. Finally, the topic is examined in the context of health economics by introducing a trade-off between enjoying health and consuming other goods, so that the extent of treatment and thus the potential improvement in the patient's health become endogenous.