The Optimal Treatment Strategy—A Patient's Perspective

In this paper we present a general model that enables us to better understand the decision of a patient whether or not to participate in a treatment, and, if so, the optimal timing for the treatment, from his point of view. The model takes into account both “objective information” which represents medical technology as well as “subjective information” which represents the patient's preference. By doing so it is attuned to the school of thought …