Key result
Surgical Decision Making guides diagnosis and treatment across 140 topics using annotated decision trees.
Why the study?
Providing succinct and understandable guidance in surgical management has been an elusive goal of many short books in the surgical literature.
Annotated decision trees may clarify surgical choices; leaves open validation in cardiovascular practice.
To provide succinct and understandable guidance in surgical management has been an elusive goal of many short books in the surgical literature. Many such books rely on an outline approach fleshed out with pithy narratives to explain the main points. The editors ofSurgical Decision Makinghave taken a different approach, which, I believe, proves to be very effective. They have used well-annotated decision trees to recommend various courses of action in the diagnosis and treatment of specific surgical problems. All told, 140 subjects are considered in the following areas: general, head and neck, thorax, abdomen, vascular system, breast and soft tissue, endocrine system, pediatrics, urology, gynecology, and orthopedics. The material has been prepared by 119 authors, many different from the ones who prepared the seven-year-old first edition. A notable aspect of the difference in authorship between the two editions is the background of the contributors. Whereas most of the
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Bernard Sigel (1986) conducted a review in Surgical problems. The book Surgical Decision Making provides guidance on 140 surgical subjects using well-annotated decision trees for diagnosis and treatment.
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