Overview
- Provides theoretical information and practical examples on decision making in oncology and hematology
- Covers different theories, such as Utility theory, Regret Theory, Dual Process Theory and the Hybrid Model
- Will be useful to experienced physicians as well as trainees alike
Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research (CTAR, volume 189)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book aims to provide threshold models to help physicians to make optimal diagnostic, therapeutic and predictive decisions. Readers will not only find theoretical information but also practical examples illustrating how these decisions should be made.
Poor decision-making is considered a leading cause of death in contemporary medicine. Decisions, however, have to be made - at a given threshold of risk and unfortunately physicians are not trained on how to make decisions. This book provides help to all those who want to improve their decision-making for a better patient outcome. With its examples from hematology and oncology the book will not only benefit haematologists and oncologists but physicians from all disciplines, hence the threshold model is applicable to all fields in medicine. This book will be useful to experienced physicians as well as trainees alike.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Iztok Hozo is a Professor at Indiana University Northwest. After completing his doctoral thesis in applied mathematics at University of Michigan, his main research interests became applications of mathematical modelling and decision theory in Medical applications. Mainly collaborating with Dr. Djulbegovic, he published 75 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
In addition to receiving several Indiana University awards for excellence in research, Dr. Hozo won prestigious teaching awards in recognition of his expertise in the classroom and curriculum development.
He is a mathematician capable of translating real scientific and medical problems into mathematical language. His mathematical acumen has enabled him to tackle the vast array of diverse medical problems. Over the years he has made contribution to statistical analysis of clinical data and improvement in techniques of meta-analysis, tackled the issues of diagnostic tests using information theory approach, recast the issue of clinical trials from game theory point of view, developed new methods for decision-making, including a novel method based on mathematical modelling of regret, and helped develop the first mathematical model of decision-making that is based on dual processing theory and developed a new theory called acceptable regret, which could explain many phenomena in the diagnostic and treatment decisions in medicine.
According to Google Scholar, his current h-index is 25. One of his published articles has over 4200 citations (written jointly with Dr. Djulbegovic and Mrs. Pudar-Hozo).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Threshold Decision-making in Clinical Medicine
Book Subtitle: With Practical Application to Hematology and Oncology
Authors: Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo
Series Title: Cancer Treatment and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37993-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37992-5Published: 05 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37995-6Due: 04 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37993-2Published: 03 October 2023
Series ISSN: 0927-3042
Series E-ISSN: 2509-8497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Hematology