Value of Diagnostic Imaging
Information from Images
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2029
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-0-12-810992-2 (ISBN)
Description
Value of Diagnostic Imaging: Information from Images addresses the concepts needed to answer questions on topics of value, such as how much to pay for diagnostic testing, how many tests are too many, do they cause harm, and whether or not patients need an MRI before a laboratory test. The book helps readers recognize when one diagnostic test is better than the other and when more information does not help. It provides an essential resource for radiologists, diagnostic pathologists, and health policy researchers involved in medical decision modeling, evidence-based medicine, precision medicine, public health and health economics.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Diagnostic pathologists, diagnostic radiologists, radiology residents, medical students, bioscientists, biotech industry professionals, undergraduate and graduate students in health economics and health sciences, clinicians and health managers, public health officers, health policy makers.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-12-810992-2 (9780128109922)
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Person
Dr. Jha is a radiologist who studies the value of imaging. He has a master's degree in health policy from the prestigious Leonard Davis Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, studying health economics, statistics, behavioral economics, decision analysis, technology assessment and outcome research.Dr. Jha runs the economics curriculum for residents and came recommended through Scott Bentley. He lectures on the economics of imaging at national meetings such as the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the Radiology Leadership Institute. He has given lectures nationally and internationally and gave the plenary lecture at the Royal College of Radiologists in Britain. He was guest editor of a special issue of Academic Radiology on Overdiagnosis, and the Journal of the American College of Radiology on Obamacare. He was awarded the General Electric Radiology Research Academic Fellowship (GERRAF) for technology assessment and the AUR-AGFA management award. Along with having a strong presence in medicine's social media, he has published in the NEJM, BMJ and JAMA, and in national media such as Forbes and Medscape.
Content
1. Logic of medical decision making2. An introduction to Bayesian analysis3. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve4. Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test5. Threshold basis of decision making6. Multiple tests7. Decision rules8. Outcomes and quality-adjusted life years9. Overview of health economics10. Derived demand and bundled payment11. Clinical trials and imaging12. Screening13. Value of information14. Decision modeling15. Uncertainty16. Introduction to behavioral economics17. Imaging and zero events18. Overdiagnosis19. Precision medicine and imaging20. Machine learning21. Integrating imaging and pathology22. Which is the better test?23. Growth of cardiac CT and cardiac MR24. Statistics of radiologists25. Controversies in imaging