Decision Analysis in Medicine and Public Health

3 credits · Graduate School

This course provides the economic foundations of decision making with a dominant focus on quantitative techniques, using clinical and economic endpoints and their role in clinical decision-making and health policy. Topics include: cognitive heuristics, Bayes' theorem, ROC analysis, the study of diagnostic tests, utility theory and expected value decision making, cost-effectiveness analysis, Markov modeling, and the quantitative management of uncertainty. [3]