Determining the Value of Diagnostic and Screening Tests

摘要: Rapid advances in medical technology frequently lead to the development of new diagnostic procedures whose value should be determined before they are used widely. These values can measured terms health and money. Health relate accurate identification successful treatment disease; financial husbanding monetary resources expended for services. In this discussion we shall review briefly funda mentals decision analysis as applied diagnosis. We then show how these a general approach evaluation tests using examples from our own work that others.