Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with apowerful framework for helping patients make decisions thatincrease the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that aremost consistent with their preferences.This new edition provides a thorough understanding of the keydecision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explainsthe principles of medical decision making both for individualpatients and the wider health care arena. It shows how to make thebest clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how touse clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronicmedical records to shape practice guidelines and policies.Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for allexperienced and learning clinicians who wish to fully understandand apply decision modelling, enhance their practice and improvepatient outcomes."There is little doubt that in the future many clinicalanalyses will be based on the methods described in MedicalDecision Making, and the book provides a basis for a criticalappraisal of such policies." - Jerome P. Kassirer M.D.,Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, USand Visiting Professor, Stanford Medical School, US