Society for Medical Decision Making

Medical Decision Making (MDM) is a peer-reviewed journal published eight times a year. MDM offers rigorous, systematic, and evidence-based approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development.  It publishes theoretical, statistical, and modeling techniques and methods from disciplines including decision psychology, health economics, clinical epidemiology, and evidence synthesis. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).   

Accessing MDM: MDM is available to members through SMDM Connect. Members can access the journal via the button below and log in through SMDM Connect with your primary email address and personally created password. Once you have logged in through SMDM Connect, please click "View Link" for full access to MDM issues.
 

Medical Decision Making focuses on such important topics as:

• Optimal strategies for patient care and policy decisions
• 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, decisions
• Technology assessment methods
• Literature synthesis methods
• Comparative effectiveness research methods

SMDM Members: Switch your MDM subscription to online only or mailed print by emailing info@smdm.org or by scrolling down on the update my information page and selecting your preferred subscription type.

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