 | Medical Decision Making by Hal Sox
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $27.45 Hal Sox's book is a classic and provides terrific coverage of medical decision making, particularly decision analysis.
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 | Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide by Alan Schwartz
Buy new: $48.59 / Used from: $23.68 This one's my book. It's directed at community physicians and patients who want a conceptual ("low-math") translation of decision science to practical clinical tools.
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 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $1.85 Atul Gawande's an outstanding writer as well as a surgeon, and Complications details several of the difficult aspects of surgical decision making. It's a great read.
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 | Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.10 Gawande's second book, Better, focuses on systems approaches to improving health care delivery. Like Complications, it reads very well and has many fascinating stories and insights.
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 | Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications (Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making)
Buy new: $47.00 / Used from: $39.86 A more advanced academic volume, covering several areas of health decision making in greater technical detail, particularly decision psychology.
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 | Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values by M. G. Myriam Hunink
Buy new: $92.63 / Used from: $74.99 This is the book I've used for years as textbook for teaching decision science, especially decision analysis, to health professionals and educators. It's got good coverage and the mathematics are made clear.
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 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.99 Not primarily focused on health care, but health care is one of many applications of the powerful behavioral economics framework suggested by this enjoyable book that focuses on how to structure choices to enhance both freedom and outcomes.
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