期刊名称:MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
ISSN: | 0272-989X
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版本: | SCI-CDE
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出版频率: | Bi-monthly
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出版社: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, USA, CA, 91320
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出版社网址: | http://online.sagepub.com/
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期刊网址: | http://mdm.sagepub.com/
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影响因子: | 2.583 |
主题范畴: | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS |
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Medical Decision Making (MDM) offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. The Journal presents theoretical, statistical, and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines, including decision psychology, health economics, clinical epidemiology, and evidence synthesis. MDM promotes understanding of human decision-making processes so that individuals can make more informed and satisfying choices regarding their health.
Medical Decision Making focuses on important topics such as
- Optimal strategies for patient care and policy decision making
- Understanding individual and group decision-making processes
- Outcomes of decisions, their measurement, and valuation
- Risk communication, risk attitudes, and judgment
- Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions
- Methods for technology assessment, literature synthesis, and evidence-based decision making in specialties including HIV Disease and Pathways, Oncology, Cardio-Pulmonary Disease, Infectious Disease, Chronic Disease, Women’s Health/OB-GYN, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Pediatrics, and Gastroenterology.
Topics of special interest in 2005-2007 include decision making in
- Diagnostic strategies in global health
- Decision making in health behavior maintenance
- Public health emergencies, including bioterrorism
- Assessing the comparative effectiveness of clinical interventions
The Journal features several rotating departments including Outcomes Research, Health Outcomes and Preferences, Clinical Applications, Patient Preferences and Decision Psychology, Utility Assessment and Patient Preferences, Patient-Centered Decision-Making, Risk Perception, Methodology, Decision Support, Editorials, Commentaries, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts, and much more.
Abstracting/Indexing Services:
Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
Biological Abstracts
CAB Abstracts
CINAHL
Current Contents: Clinical Medicine
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Global Health
Index Medicus
InfoTrac (full text)
MEDLINE
NISC
Prous Science Integrity®
Psychological Abstracts
PsycINFO
Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Rural Development Abstracts
SafetyLit
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science)
Scopus
Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Instructions to Authors
Medical Decision Making offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. Using the fundamentals of decision analysis and theory, economic evaluation, and evidence-based quality assessment, Medical Decision Making presents both theoretical and practical statistical and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines.
Medical Decision Making focuses on important topics such as:
- Optimal strategies for patient care and policy decision making
- How patients, clinicians, and policy makers actually make decisions
- Outcomes of decisions, their measurement and valuation
- Sources of information necessary to make the best decisions
- Ethical and legal aspects of decision making
- Decision psychology, including cognitive errors and risk attitudes
- Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions
in specialties such as: HIV Disease and Pathways, Oncology, Cardio-Pulmonary Disease, Infectious Disease, Chronic Disease, Women's Health/OB-GYN, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology.
Topics covered in recent issues
- Decision support systems and case-based reasoning
- Cognitive aspects of decision making; judgement and decision psychology
- Assessment of patient expectations, preferences, values, and utilities
- Risk, case-mix, and severity of illness
- Quality of care assessment and improvement
- Development and evaluation of clinical guidelines
- Cost-effectiveness and cost benefit analysis
- Economics of health and healthcare systems
- Modeling techniques
- Development and analysis of large databases
- Outcomes, quality of life, and health status assessment
- Shared decision making
The journal features several rotating departments including: Outcomes Research, Health Outcomes and Preferences, Clinical Applications, Patient Preferences and Decision Psychology, Utility Assessment and Patient Preferences, Patient-Centered Decision-Making, Risk Perception, Methodology, Decision Support, Editorials, Commentaries, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts, and much more!
Editorial Board
Past Editors:
J. Robert Beck, MD, 1989-94
Arthur S. Elstein, PhD, 1995-99
Dennis G. Fryback, PhD, 1986-88
Lee B. Lusted, MD, 1981-85
Frank A. Sonnenberg, MD, 2000-04
UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Associate Editors:
Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc
University of Toronto
Andrew Briggs, DPhil
University of Oxford, UK
Neal V Dawson, MD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Elisabeth Fenwick, MSc, PhD
University of Glasgow
Robert M. Hamm, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Olga Kostopoulou, PhD
King's College London
Karen Kuntz, Sci.D.
University of Minnesota
Michael Pignone, MD
University of North Carolina
Donald Redelmeier, MD
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Louise B. Russell, PhD
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Alan J. Schwartz, PhD
University of Illinois, Chicago
Ken Smith, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Anne Stiggelbout, PhD
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Theo Stijnen, PhD
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Editorial Board: Terming Ending 2010:
Caleb Alexander, MD, MS
University of Chicago
Hillary Bekker, MSc, PhD
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
Nananda Col, MD, MPP, MPH, FACP
Brown Medical School
David Feeny, PhD
Kaiser Permanente
Frank Harrell Jr., PhD
Vanderbilt University
David Katz, MD, MSc
VA Iowa City Health Care System
Wilhelmine Miller, PhD
The George Washington University School of Public Health Services
Ellen Peters, PhD
Decision Research Institute, Eugene
Jolie Ringash, MD, MSc, FFPH
Princess Margaret Hospital
Ken Stein, MB, MSc, MD, FPPH
Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, UK
Nicky Welton, PhD
University of Bristol
Brian Zikmund-Fisher, PhD
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System & University of Michigan
Editorial Board: Terming Ending 2011:
Hal Arkes, PhD
Ohio State University
Patrick Bossuyt, PhD
University of Amsterdam
Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, PRCP(C)
Yale University
Ron Goeree, MA
McMaster University
David Howard, PhD
Emory University
Murray Krahn, BA, MD, MSc
University of Toronto
Kristin McCaffery, BSc Hons, PhD
University of Sydney
Dan Polsky, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
UMIT
Jane Sisk, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jacob Sont, PhD
LUMC
Kimberly Thompson, MS, ScD
Harvard School of Public Health
Wendy Ungar, PhD
Hospital for Sick Children
Kevin Weinfurt, PhD
Duke University
Editorial Board: Terming Ending 2012:
Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Paul Anand, BA, DPhil
The Open University, Oxford
Matthias Bischof, PhD
McMaster University
Noel Brewer, PhD
University of North Carolina, School of Public Health
Brian Denton, PhD
North Carolina State University
Ruth Etzioni, PhD
University of Washington
Neil Hawkins, PhD, MSc
Oxford Outcomes
Mark Jit, PhD
University of Birmingham
Sun-Young Kim, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health
Sara J. Knight, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Arielle Lasry, MSc
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Victor Montori, MD
Mayo Clinic
Gillian Sanders, PhD
Duke University
Bruce Schackman, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College
Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH
Medical College of Wisconsin
Martha Shumway, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Robert Welte, PhD, MPH, MSc
German Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management
Fredric Wolf, PhD
University of Washington
Editorial Assistant:
Camber Hansen-Karr
Editorial Manager:
Lauren Saxton
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