Decision making with multiple goals: extending the threshold approach

Given a set of conditions that may be present in a patient, this paper presents a methods for choosing the optimal combination of treatment actions, taking into account interactions among the available therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. The multiple-threshold approach is an extension of the threshold approach for individual conditions, and it offers a precise way of computing the optimal actions. In addition, tests for an example case show a 11-29% increase in the expected utility of treatments using this method.