Handbook of Health Decision Science

Part I. Basics First

1. What Are Values, Utilities, and Preferences? A Clarification in the Context of Decision Making in Health Care, and an Exploration of Measurement Issues
Arwen H. Pieterse, Anne M. Stiggelbout

2. Decision Architectures
Bradford W. Hesse

3. Modeling Medical Decisions
J. Robert Beck

4. From Laboratory to Clinic and Back: Connecting Neuroeconomic and Clinical Measures of Decision-Making Dysfunctions
Ming Hsu, Winston Chiong

5. Research Methods for Health Decision Making
Marc T. Kiviniemi, Erin M. Ellis

Part II. Decision Making on the Individual Level

6. A Fuzzy-Trace Theory of Judgment and Decision-Making in Health Care: Explanation, Prediction, and Application
Priscila G. Brust-Renck, Valerie F. Reyna, Evan A. Wilhelms, Andrew N. Lazar

7. Cognitive Mechanisms and Common-Sense Management of Cancer Risk: Do Patients Make Decisions?
Howard Leventhal, Jessica S. Yu, Elaine A. Leventhal, Susan M. Bodnar-Deren

8. The Influence of Affect on Health Decisions
Ellen Peters, Louise Meilleur

9. Strategies to Promote the Maintenance of Behavior Change: Moving from Theoretical Principles to Practice
Alexander J. Rothman, Austin S. Baldwin, Rachel J. Burns, Paul T. Fuglestad

10. Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Health Decisions
Paul K. J. Han

11. Adult Age Differences in Health-Related Decision-Making: A Primer
Corinna E. Löckenhoff, Chu Hsiao, Julia Kim, Katya Swarts

12. Decision-Making in Adolescents and Young Adults
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Majel Baker, Sarah Stitzel

Part III. Decision Making on the Interpersonal Level

13. Decision Making in the Family
Laura A. Siminoff, Maria D. Thomson

14. Shared Decision-Making and the Patient-Provider Relationship
Kathryn J. Rowland, Mary C. Politi

15. Legal Aspects of Healthcare Decision-Making
Rebecca Saracino, Elissa Kolva, Barry Rosenfeld

Part IV. Applied Decision Making

16. Decision Tools for HealthCare Professionals
Ambili Ramachandran, Shivani Reddy, Devin M. Mann

17. Using the Veterans Health Administration as a Laboratory for Integrated Decision Tools for Patients and Clinicians
Sara J. Knight

18. Tailored Communications for Health-Related Decision-Making and Behavior Change
Seth M. Noar, Nancy Grant Harrington

19. Overcoming the Many Pitfalls of Communicating Risk
Erika A. Waters, Angela Fagerlin, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

20. Decision Aids: Do They Work?
Nananda F. Col, Vicky Springmann

Part V. Decision Making on the Organizational, State and National Level

21. The Promise and Perils of Shared Decision-Making in Clinical Practice
Rachel A. Greenup, Jeffrey Peppercorn

22. Evidence-Based Medicine and Decision-Making Policy
George Cheely, David Zaas

23. Introduction: Transformations in Health Care Delivery and Financing
Stephen M. Weiner

Part VI. The Future of Decision Making

24. The Internet, Social Media, and Health Decision-Making
Amanda L. Graham, Caroline O. Cobb, Nathan K. Cobb

25. Decision-Making in the Age of Whole Genome Sequencing
Saskia C. Sanderson, Eric E. Schadt

Keywords: Psychology, Health Psychology, Public Health, Personality and Social Psychology, Nursing