Medical Decision Making
Official Journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
eISSN:
1552681X | ISSN:
0272989X | Current volume: 42 | Current issue: 7
Frequency: 8 Times/Year
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. Published eight times a year, 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, comparative effectiveness research and evidence-based decision making.
For detailed information about Medical Decision Making—including MDM's scope of interest, article categories (and word count limits), and author instructions—please access the MDM Web site.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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 care 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.
Please see the Medical Decision Making Web site for more information.
Editor-in-Chief
| Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
Deputy Editor
| Lauren E. Cipriano, PhD | University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) |
Associate Editors
| Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD | Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
| Stefano Conti, MSc, PhD | NHS England and NHS Improvement (London, United Kingdom) |
| Neal V. Dawson, MD (Emeritus) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States) |
| Olga Kostopoulou, MSc, PhD | Imperial College London (United Kingdom) |
| Josephine A. Mauskopf, PhD, MHA | RTI International (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States) |
| Mary C. Politi, PhD | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Eleanor M. Pullenayegum, PhD | University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| Donald A. Redelmeier, MD | University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| Louise B. Russell, PhD | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States) |
| Paul A. Scuffham, PhD | Griffith University(Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) |
| Victoria A. Shaffer, PhD | University of Missouri (Columbia, United States) |
| Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS | University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Oslo (Norway) |
| James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH | Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States) |
| Ewout W. Steyerberg, MSc, PhD | Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
| Erika A. Waters, PhD, MPH | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Nicky J. Welton, PhD | University of Bristol (United Kingdom) |
| Torbjørn Wisløff, MSc, PhD | Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway |
| Feng Xie, BSc, MSc, PhD | McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) |
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2022
| Lazaros Andronis, PhD | University of Warwick (Conventry, United Kingdom) |
| Bonnie A. Armstrong, MA, PhD | Unity Health Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| Caroline Bascoul-Mollevi, PhD | Montpellier Cancer Institute, University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France) |
| Kerri L. Cavanaugh, MD, MHS | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, United States) |
| Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, SM | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Elamin H. Elbasha, PhD | Merck & Co. (West Point, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Paul K. J. Han, MD, MA, MPH | National Cancer Institute (Rockville, Maryland, United States) |
| Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Quang A. Le, PharmD, PhD | Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California, United States) |
| Nan Luo, PhD | National University of Singapore |
| Daniel D. Matlock, MD, MPH | University of Colorado Denver (Aurora, United States) |
| Eric S. Meadows, PhD | Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis, Indiana, United States) |
| Wendy L. Nelson, MPH, PhD, RN | National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, Maryland, United States) |
| A. Simon Pickard, PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| José Luis Pinto Prades, PhD, MSc | University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) |
| Carolyn M. Rutter, PhD | RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, California, United States) |
| Aaron M. Scherer, MA, PhD | University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States) |
| Andrew J. Vickers, PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York, United States) |
| Todd H. Wagner, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Jennifer A. Whitty, BPharm, GradDipClinPharm, PhD | Evidera (London, United Kingdom) |
Editorial Board : Term Ending 2023 (Masthead Version)
| Sarah E. Bates, MSc, PhD | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England) |
| Ben van Calster, PhD | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| James V. Codella, MEng, PhD | Microsoft (Yorktown Heights, New York, United States) |
| Felicitas Kuehne, MSc | UMIT - University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (Hall i.T., Tyrol, Austria) |
| Helen A. Colby, PhD | Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, United States) |
| Simon D. Eckermann, PhD | University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia) |
| Tom Fahey, MSc, MD, DCH, DObs, MEd, MFPH | RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Dublin, Ireland) |
| Sarah L. Goff, MD, PhD | University of Massachusetts, Amherst (United States) |
| Negin Hajizadeh, MD, MPH | Northwell Health (New York, United States) |
| Aubri S. Hoffman (Rose), PhD | The University of Texas at Austin (United States) |
| David W. Hutton, PhD | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Ohio, United States) |
| Michelle McDowell, PhD | University of Potsdam (Germany) |
| Mari Palta, PhD | University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States) |
| Ankur Pandya, MPH, PhD | Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) |
| Adam T. Perzynski, MA, PhD | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Valerie F. Reyna, PhD | Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) |
| Beate Sander, RN, MBA, MEcDev, PhD | University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| Laura D. Scherer, PhD | University of Colorado School of Medicine(Aurora, United States) |
| Karen R. Sepucha, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States) |
| Richard Tawiah, PhD | University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) |
| Haitham W. Tuffaha, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States) |
| Vera Vennedey, MSc | University of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| Reza Yaesoubi, PhD | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States) |
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2024
| Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD | Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (Aguascalientes, Mexico) |
| Carissa Bonner, MPH, PhD | The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health (New South Wales, Australia) |
| Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD, MSc | University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Dornsife Department of Psychology, USA |
| Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, United States) |
| Barry D. Dewitt, PhD | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Manuel Gomes, MSc, PhD | University College London (United Kingdom) |
| Darryl T. Gray, MD, ScD, FACC, FAHA | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia, United States) |
| Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD | University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Felicity W.K. Harper, PhD | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, United States) |
| Anna Heath, MMath, PhD | University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and SickKids Research Institute (Ontario, Canada) |
| Ashley J. Housten, OTD, MSCI, MPA | Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine (Missouri, United States) |
| Benjamin Kearns | University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| Robert L. Jayes, MD | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |
| Donna Rowen, PhD, MSc | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| Jamie L. Studts, PhD | University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora, United States) |
| Gustav Tinghög, PhD | Linköping University (Sweden) |
| Thomas Valley, MD, MSc | University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Matthijs Versteegh, PhD | Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) |
| JoAnne Wu, MS, MD | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, United States) |
Past Editors
| J. Robert Beck, MD, 1989-1994 | |
| Arthur S. Elstein, PhD, 1995-1999 | |
| Dennis G. Fryback, PhD, 1986-1988 | |
| Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, 2005-2012 | Oregon Health & Sciences University (Portland, United States) |
| Lee B. Lusted, MD, 1981-1985 | |
| Alan J. Schwartz, PhD, 2013-2020 | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Frank A. Sonnenberg, MD, 2000-2004 |
Editorial Office
| Katherine Grandinetti, BS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
| Stacy Wennstrom, MA | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
Authors are strongly encouraged to review the Medical Decision Making Web site for information on manuscript requirements, manuscript submission, and the peer review process at MDM.
Please contact the MDM Editorial Office with any questions.