Making the Right Treatment Decision Requires Consideration of Utility and Reconsideration of Value

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• 作者：Michael J. Rossi ; M.D. ; M.S. (Assistant Editor-in-Chief) ; James H. Lubowitz ; M.D. (Editor-in-Chief) ; Jefferson C. Brand ; M.D. (Deputy Editor) ; Matthew T. Provencher ; M.D. (Assistant Editor-in-Chief)
• 刊名：Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：2
• 页码：239-241
• 全文大小：127 K
• 卷排序：33

文摘

To achieve a good clinical outcome, arthroscopic and related surgeons must choose the proper treatment, and the basis of this choice is accurate diagnosis. Generally, our clinical focus is on outcome, but outcome is achieved after the fact. While this seems obvious, arthroscopic and related surgeons—and our patients who participate in shared decision making—evaluate the utility, or usefulness, of potential treatments based on desired and expected benefits versus potential risks. Today, cost is frequently considered as a determinant of value in medicine and may be applied to the decision analysis, but if an individual patient perceives health to be priceless, cost becomes irrelevant. In the end, an individual patient's satisfaction is determined on a case-by-case basis. Proper choice of treatment cannot be formulaic.