Decision analysis in critical care medicine.
Decision analysis, a quantitative approach to problem solving, has been applied to many clinical scenarios and has applications for the intensivist and for problems in the critically ill. This article provides a brief overview of the fundamental features of decision analysis along with an overview of its application to problems in critical care medicine and related fields.
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Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. DCHALFIN@BETHISRAELNY.ORG
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003422:Critical Care; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D008390:Markov Chains; D012984:Software