期刊名称：MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Medical Decision Making
THE MOST CITED JOURNAL IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
AND HIGHLY RANKED IN HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
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If you are a health care professional involved in health economics, technology assessment, outcomes research or quality of life research looking for the highest quality and most reliable information you can find, you should be reading Medical Decision Making --- the most cited journal (almost 3x as many times as its’ nearest competitor!) in Medical Informatics and #2 in Health Care Sciences & Services--according to the latest ISI Journal Citation Reports. |
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Instructions to Authors
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 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.
Medical Decision Making focuses on important topics such as:
- 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
- Decision psychology, including cognitive errors and risk attitudes
- Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions
in specialties such as: HIV Disease and Pathways, Oncology, Cardio-Pulmonary Disease, Infectious Disease, Chronic Disease, Women’s Health/OB-GYN, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Pediatrics, Gastroenterology.
Topics covered in recent issues
- Decision support systems and case-based reasoning
- Cognitive aspects of decision making; judgement and decision psychology
- Assessment of patient expectations, preferences, values, and utilities
- Risk, case-mix, and severity of illness
- Quality of care assessment and improvement
- Development and evaluation of clinical guidelines
- Cost-effectiveness and cost benefit analysis
- Economics of health and healthcare systems
- Modeling techniques
- Development and analysis of large databases
- Outcomes, quality of life, and health status assessment
- Shared decision making
The journal features several rotating departments including: Outcomes Research, Health Outcomes and Preferences, Clinical Applications, Patient Preferences and Decision Psychology, Utility Assessment and Patient Preferences, Patient-Centered Decision-Making, Risk Perception, Methodology, Decision Support, Editorials, Commentaries, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts, and much more!
Editorial Board
The Society of Medical Decision Making is requesting applications for Editor in Chief of Medical Decision Making. Frank A. Sonnenberg, the current editor, is stepping down on June 30, 2004. The first issue that the new editor would assume responsibility for is the January 2005 issue. This would require the new editor to begin transiting into the editorship in March 2004 and taking full control in July 1, 2004.
We are seeking candidates who have extensive knowledge of the society and the field of medical decision making and who are committed to leading MDM in an expansion of the journal's scope and presence.
We ask that interested people send c.v.'s and vision statements by May 19, 2003. In the vision statements, we ask that people describe their vision and priorities of the journal, including any changes they envision for the journal. Interviews will begin in June.
For further information, or to submit your CV and vision statement, please contact:
Peter A. Ubel, MD
Division of General Medicine
300 North Ingalls Building, RM 7C27
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0429
Email: paubel@umich.edu
Ph: 734.615.8591
Fax: 734.936.8944
Additional Material
Critical to the success of the editor is an editorial assistant. A description of the duties of the editorial assistant is provided here.
As described in the announcement, all applicants must submit a c.v. and a vision statement. An example of a vision statement can be found here. A subset of applicants will be asked by the search committee to provide written responses to a series of questions. We have included questions used in the previous search as a guide to what type of questions we may ask
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