Interests of our Members 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 Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions

Members' Areas of Expertise Decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis Cognitive aspects of decision making Judgment and decision psychology Outcome and health status assessment Assessment of patients' preferences, values, and utilities Medical economics Health care technology assessment Risk, case mix, and severity of illness Quality of care assessment and improvement Biostatistics Development and analysis of large databases Biomedical ethics Development and evaluation of practice guidelines Expert systems and decision technologies Medical and patient education Health Policy Global Health

SMDM members contribute critically to health policy research in the areas of evidence-based medicine, cost effective health care, patient decision making and public health. For more information, see Contributions. For further information, SMDM has made available online the summary abstracts (written in non-scientific language) for articles published in recent volumes of its journal, Medical Decision Making. These abstracts are grouped by topic area to facilitate browsing. While SMDM members publish in many other journals as well, these abstracts represent a good cross-section of the type of research the Society promotes.

SMDM offers deeply discounted membership rates and meeting registration fees to people residing in non-high income countries. Eligibility for these fees is based on country of residence, using the World Bank definition of low and middle income countries (see list).

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