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).

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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

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