Risk and medical decision making /
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| Author / Creator: | Eeckhoudt, Louis. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2002. |
| Description: | 134 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in risk and uncertainty ; 14 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4811796 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part 1. Developments inside the E-U model
- Chapter 2. The case of diagnostic risks in a single risk environment
- Exercises
- Chapter 3. The introduction of "comorbidity risks" and the treatment threshold. The notion of prudence
- Exercises
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Chapter 4. Treatment decisions under therapeutic risks
- Section 4.1. Risk neutrality
- Section 4.2. Risk aversion
- Section 4.3. Comorbidity (severity) risks
- A synthesis of chapter 2 to 4
- Exercises
- Appendix 3
- Chapter 5. The value of diagnostic tests (under risk neutrality)
- Exercises
- Chapter 6. Risk aversion and diagnostic tests
- Exercises
- Chapter 7. Comorbidity risks and the value of a test: a short overview
- Exercises
- Appendix 4
- Part 2. M.D.M and new models of choice under risk
- Chapter 8. Treatment thresholds and the dual theory of choice under risk
- Exercises
- Chapter 9. Diagnostic tests and the dual theory
- Exercises
- Conclusions
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- References
- Index
