Medical Decision Making
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.
| Alan J. Schwartz, PhD | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS | University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD | Cornell University (New York City, New York, United States) |
| Lauren E. Cipriano, PhD | University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) |
| Stefano Conti, MSc, PhD | National Health Service England (London, United Kingdom) |
| Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Olga Kostopoulou, MSc, PhD | Imperial College London (United Kingdom) |
| Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Oslo (Norway) |
| 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, PGDip (Arts) | Griffith University (Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia) |
| Victoria A. Shaffer, PhD | University of Missouri (Columbia, United States) |
| James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH | Dartmouth College (Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States) |
| Ewout W. Steyerberg, MSc, PhD | Erasmus University (Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) |
| Mark Strong, MBChB, MPH, PhD | University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) |
| Erika A. Waters, PhD, MPH | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Nicky J. Welton, PhD | University of Bristol (United Kingdom) |
| Feng Xie, BSc, MSc, PhD | McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) |
| Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Emeritus: Neal V. Dawson, MD | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Pelham M. Barton, PhD | University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) |
| Robert Böhm, PhD | RWTH Aachen University (Germany) |
| James V. Codella, MEng, PhD | IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, New York, United States) |
| James G. Dolan, MD | University of Rochester (New York, United States) |
| Simon D. Eckermann, PhD | University of Wollongong (New South Wales, Australia) |
| Tom Fahey, MSc, MD, DCH, DObs, MEd, MFPH | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin) |
| Negin Hajizadeh, MD, MPH | New York University School of Medicine (New York, United States) |
| Malek B. Hannouf, PhD | London Health Sciences Centre (United Kingdom) |
| David W. Hutton, PhD | University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States) |
| Christopher H. Jackson, MMath, PhD | University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) |
| Sarah E. Lillie, MPH, PhD | Minneapolis VA Health Care System (Minnesota, 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 |
| Mary C. Politi, PhD | Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States) |
| Beate Sander, RN, MBA, PhD, MEcDev, PhD | Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (Toronto, Canada) |
| Laura D. Scherer, PhD | University of Colorado Denver (United States) |
| Matthias Schwenkglenks, PhD, MPH | University of Basel (Switzerland) |
| Djøra I. Soeteman, MSc, PhD | Harvard University (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) |
| Ben van Calster, PhD | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Joost van Rosmalen, PhD | Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands) |
| Torbjørn Fosen Wisløff, MSc, PhD | Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services (Oslo, Norway) |
| Tracey Anne Young, PhD | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) |
| Dana L. Alden, PhD, MBA | University of Hawai'i at Manoa (Honolulu, United States) |
| Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD, MSc | University of Leeds (United Kingdom) |
| Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, United States) |
| Barry D. Dewitt, PhD | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| 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) |
| Joanna L. Hart, MSHP, MD | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States) |
| Robert L. Jayes, MD | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| Petros Pechlivanoglou, MSc, PhD | Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| Donna Rowen, PhD, MSc | University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) |
| Steffan Frosi Stella, MD, PhD | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil) |
| Jamie L. Studts, PhD | University of Kentucky (Lexington, United States) |
| JoAnne Wu, MS, MD | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, United States) |
| Lee B. Lusted, MD, 1981-1985 | |
| Dennis G. Fryback, PhD, 1986-1988 | |
| J. Robert Beck, MD, 1989-1994 | |
| Arthur S. Elstein, PhD, 1995-1999 | |
| Frank A. Sonnenberg, MD, 2000-2004 | |
| Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, 2005-2012 | Oregon Health & Sciences University (Portland, United States) |
| Rebecca J. Fiala, MA | University of Illinois at Chicago (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.