The Science of Medical Decision-Making
Principles, Algorithms, and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 13. February 2026
Book
Hardback
135 pages
978-1-0364-6351-9 (ISBN)
Description
Medical decision-making is about making choices - choices for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. But medical decision-making must be made in the context of uncertainty about the course of a disease in an individual patient and the likely benefit or outcome of various treatment options, so making choices is not always easy. This book, aimed at all practising doctors, explores how we make decisions in medical and surgical practice (in probabilistic terms - the probability of success and failure, and how success and failure might be defined) and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, based on algorithmic decision making, might support and facilitate how doctors make decisions. Doctors need to have a basic understanding of the underlying theory and methods of AI in order to understand the benefits and risks of AI diagnostic and decision-making tools in medical and surgical practice. Our aim is to give the reader a sound knowledge of how humans make decisions so that they can better understand the advantages and limitations of the AI tools they will be using in the future.
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Language
English
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0364-6351-9 (9781036463519)
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Olivier Cussenot, MD, PhD was Professor of Urology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He is currently a visiting professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences of the University of Oxford, UK. As a urological surgeon, oncologist and geneticist he leads a research team in predictive oncology. He was awarded honorary membership of the Institut Universitaire de France for his internationally recognised research excellence. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and several books.
John Reynard, DM, MA, LLM, FRCS, FRCS Urol is a consultant urological surgeon in Oxford and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. He is a co-author of Practical Patient Safety (2025) and Urology and the Law: Lessons from Litigation, which consider the legal and safety implications of decision making in medical and surgical practice, and the forthcoming (2026) book Medical Negligence: A clinician's guide to reducing complaints and litigation.
John Reynard, DM, MA, LLM, FRCS, FRCS Urol is a consultant urological surgeon in Oxford and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences. He is a co-author of Practical Patient Safety (2025) and Urology and the Law: Lessons from Litigation, which consider the legal and safety implications of decision making in medical and surgical practice, and the forthcoming (2026) book Medical Negligence: A clinician's guide to reducing complaints and litigation.