Medisur (Apr 2004)

Taking decision general theory and its application in the medical assistance field (II)

  • Luis Alberto Corona Martínez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 68 – 73

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This article deals with methods and techniques for assessing and selecting opinions. Among the ones used by the doctors investigation and analysis are used by the doctors and as a most concrete technique the cost-benefit analysis as well as the so called the tree decision in which subjective probabilities are assessed as a qualitative category not as a quantitative one. These methods and techniques allow to elicit options in risky conditions that characterise the decision making process in the medical field.

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