Clinical decision theory: The threshold concept
Clinical decision theory: The threshold concept
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DOI:
10.1016/0300-2977(95)00035-6
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发表时间:
1995-12-01
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Habbema, JDF
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Habbema, JDF
The rapidly increasing diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities, the high-quality demands by patients and public and the pressure for cost containment all contribute to the importance of trying to develop more explicit approaches to clinical reasoning and decision making. The rise of clinical decision theory, which is concerned with the quantitative study of decision problems in individual patient care, can partly be seen as a response to this challenge. A science of clinical decision making is possible because reasoning processes in diagnostics (what is wrong?), prognosis (what will happen?) and therapy choice (what can be done about it?) obey laws which are independent of the particular clinical domain of application. Clinical decision theory is truly a multi-disciplinary science. It uses methods and results from many fields including mathematical decision theory, probability theory, epidemiology, statistics, informatics, and cog-