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The Case of Diagnostic Risks in a Single Risk Environment

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Risk and Medical Decision Making

Part of the book series: Studies in Risk and Uncertainty ((SIRU,volume 14))

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This introductory chapter is devoted to a review of P.K.’s 1975 paper where these authors introduced the now popular notion of a “treatment threshold” (Ttr).

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  1. See e.g. Eeckhoudt-Gollier (1995) especially page 24.

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Eeckhoudt, L. (2002). The Case of Diagnostic Risks in a Single Risk Environment. In: Risk and Medical Decision Making. Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0991-2_2

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