Complex questions arise within our health system when making - and paying for - a diagnosis. Insurance payers may ask: How much should I reimburse PET-MRI; ER physicians may ask: Should I get an MRI before a laboratory test or vice versa? What are the limitations of the test? Medical students may ask: Do I harm my patient by doing too many tests? Economics of Diagnostic Imaging will address the concepts that are needed to answer these questions. The essential focus of the book will be recognizing when one diagnostic test is better than the other and recognizing when more information does not help. It provides an essential resource for radiologists, diagnostic pathologists, and health policy researchers involved in medical decision modelling, evidence-based medicine, precision medicine, public health, and health economics. Interrelates economic evaluation and diagnostic imagingInstructs healthcare professionals and researchers about economic evaluation in diagnostic imagingIntroduces economic evaluation to diagnostic radiologists, pathologists, and researchers INDICE: 1. Logic of medical decision making 2. An introduction to Bayesian analysis 3. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve 4. Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test 5. Threshold basis of decision making 6. Multiple tests 7. Decision rules 8. Outcomes and quality-adjusted life years 9. Overview of health economics 10. Derived demand and bundled payment 11. Clinical trials and imaging 12. Screening 13. Value of information 14. Decision modeling 15. Uncertainty 16. Introduction to behavioral economics 17. Imaging and zero events 18. Overdiagnosis 19. Precision medicine and imaging 20. Machine learning 21. Integrating imaging and pathology 22. Which is the better test? 23. Growth of cardiac CT and cardiac MR 24. Statistics of radiologists 25. Controversies in imaging
- ISBN: 978-0-12-810992-2
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 150
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés