Probabilities and preferences: What economics can teach doctors and patients making difficult treatment decisions

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 669-673

  Sommers, Benjamin D ^a   Zeckhauser, Richard ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cancer (bladder, breast, prostate); Consensus guideline; Decision analysis; Erectile dysfunction; Impatience; Preference; Probabilities (partial, integrated); Probability (relative, absolute); QALY; Risk aversion; Stochastic dominance; Utilities

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROBABILITY; RISK-TAKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249110668     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2007.12.007     Document Type: Review

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