Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A textbook for graduate students and tutorial for health-care professionals that shows how to integrate quantitative, evidence-based data and subjective outcome values in making clinical and health- policy decisions. The disk contains additional material, answers to exercises, and databases. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Decision making in health care means navigating through a complex and tangled web of diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainties, patient preferences and values, and costs. In addition, medical therapies may include side effects, surgery may lead to undesirable complications, and diagnostic technologies may produce inconclusive results. In many clinical and health policy decisions it is necessary to counterbalance benefits and risks, and to trade off competing objectives such as maximizing life expectancy vs optimizing quality of life vs minimizing the required resources. This textbook plots a clear course through these complex and conflicting variables. It clearly explains and illustrates tools for integrating quantitative evidence-based data and subjective outcome values in making clinical and health policy decisions. An accompanying CD-ROM features solutions to the exercises, PowerPoint庐 presentations of the illustrations, and sample models and tables.   Publisher Summary 3 Tells doctors and students how to evaluate complex clinical information to improve health care.