Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

The Rise of Quantitative Decision Making in Clinical Care

Daniel R. Masys, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
VUMC

Wednesday, October 22, 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII Conference Room 1220

Intended Audience: Persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, R users or potential users

Current medical practice depends largely upon the reliability and cognitive capacity of autonomous individual practitioners for classes of problems that routinely exceed the bounds of unaided human cognition. This talk will review trends in the growth of evidence that has bearing on clinical decision-making, and discuss systems approaches to improving the consistency and quality of clinical care in a data-intensive era of personalized medicine.

http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/people/masys.html