title: Decision making with multiple goals: extending the threshold approach.
abstract: Given a set of conditions that may be present in a patient, this paper presents a methods for choosing the optimal combination of treatment actions, taking into account interactions among the available therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. The multiple-threshold approach is an extension of the threshold approach for individual conditions, and it offers a precise way of computing the optimal actions. In addition, tests for an example case show a 11-29% increase in the expected utility of treatments using this method.
authors.affiliation: Philadelphia VAMC, PA, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Washington
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D013812:Therapeutics; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy