Making Decisions When No Further Diagnostic Testing is Available

Benjamin Djulbegovic; Iztok Hozo

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37993-2_2

Making Decisions When No Further Diagnostic Testing is Available

Cancer Treat Res. 2023:189:25-37. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37993-2_2.

Authors

Benjamin Djulbegovic¹, Iztok Hozo²

Affiliations

¹ Hematology Stewardship Program, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, USA.

PMID: 37789158
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37993-2_2

Abstract

In this chapter, we illustrate how evidence about treatments' benefits and harms can be integrated to enable rational decision-making even under considerable clinical uncertainty.

MeSH terms

Clinical Decision-Making*
Decision Making*
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
Humans
Uncertainty