Helping patients and physicians reach individualized medical decisions: theory and application to prenatal diagnostic testing

Edi Karni, Moshe Leshno and Sivan Rapaport

Theory and Decision, 2014, vol. 76, issue 4, 467 pages

Abstract: This paper presents a procedure designed to aid physicians and patients in the process of making medical decisions, and illustrates its implementation to aid pregnant women, who decided to undergo prenatal diagnostic test choose a physician to administer it. The procedure is based on a medical decision-making model of Karni (J Risk Uncertain 39: 1–16, 2009 ). This model accommodates the possibility that the decision maker’s risk attitudes may vary with her state of health and incorporates other costs, such as pain and inconvenience, associated with alternative treatments. The medical decision problem was chosen for its relative simplicity and the transparency it affords. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Medical decision making; Prenatal diagnostic testing; CVS; Amniocentesis; I19; D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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