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Value of Imaging Lecture Series 2015:

1. Conceptual framework for valueof imaging 
2. Introduction to Bayesian analysis
3. Sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratios
4. The Gold Standard
5. Biases with diagnostic testing 
6. Receiver operating characteristic curve
7. Value of a test: Exercise ECG and Calcium Scan
8. Threshold basis of decision making: test and treatment thresholds
9. Cost of False Negative and Cost of False Positive
10. Assessing the accuracy of imaging in pulmonary embolism: PIOPED trials
11. Assessing value of imaging by randomized controlled trials
12. Assessing value of imaging by secondary databases
13. How to develop a clinical decision rule
14. Expected value and Quality Associated Life Years
15. Decision analysis to explore value of imaging
16. Utility analysis
17. Sensitivity Analysis and Markov Models
18. Uncertainty
19. Information theory
20. Expected value of perfect information
21. Judging value of imaging by the “n”
22. How to quantify the added value of PET
23. Principles of Microeconomics 
24. What’s special about economics of healthcare?
25. Behavioral Economics and Prospect Theory
26. Risk, uncertainty and quantification
27. Economic theories of value
28. Derived Demand
29. How thresholds are derived
30. Overdiagnosis
31. Appropriateness and beyond - exploring the coastline of the value of imaging
32. TEST

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Recommended Books:

The following books are recommended to establish a solid foundation. If there is a book you like which is not on the list, please let me know.

• Medical Decision Making. Sox and Higgins.
  

• Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values. Hunink and Weinstein.
  

• Evidence-based diagnosis. Newman and Kohn.