Medical Decision Making Credits: 3

Catalog description

This course will introduce the concept of medical decision making under uncertainty through an examination of disease probabilities and how they are altered by the characteristics of the diagnostic test being studies or used clinically. Decision trees will be introduced as a mechanism for communicating complex medical decisions and introductory level decision analysis will be presented. The measurement of patient values for alternative outcomes will be introduced as they pertain to direct payoff values as well as modifiers to cost payoffs.