Bayesian Approach in Medicine and Health Management

The Bayesian procedure is a particular way of formulating and dealing with these type of problems. It has great promise in putting health-related decision making on a more rational basis, thus making the assumptions more obvious, and making the decisions easier to ex‐ plain and defend [1]. This approach can be used to support the decision-making process in many application fields, as, for example, diagnosis and prognosis [2], risk assessment [3] and health technology assessment [4]. A wide-ranging collection of applications of Bayesian statistics in the biomedical field can be found in thematic books [5-7].