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Brief text accompanies each algorithm and explains the key steps of the decisionmaking process. This book teaches the scientific principles of making decisions in clinical practice. Medical decision making mdm offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. Medical decision making michael nauss md facep senior staff hfh dept. Medical decision making, 2nd edition clinical skills. 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. Every physician is confronted daily with decision making. Written to meet the needs of medical students and experienced clinicians alike, this book is a clearly presented, stepbystep guide to understanding how, through the processes of decision analysis, a physician can reach valid, reasoned conclusions about medical treatment despite imperfect information about the patient. Medical decisionmaking capacity the rational clinical. Making medical decisions the blog for the forthcoming book. The amount andor complexity of medical records, diagnostic tests. Straightforward medical decision making is the lowest level of medical decision making. A stepbystep guide to understanding how, through the processes of decision analysis, a physician can reach valid, reasoned conclusions about medical treatment despite imperfect information about the patient. Ethical thinking about medical decisionmaking has roots deep in history.
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