Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, being held in Philadelphia this October. The meeting theme is “Comparative Effectiveness Research.”

Again, this year’s SMDM abstract submission process will be fully electronic. The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday, June 6, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Abstracts are being sought in the following categories.

Health Services and Policy Research
Comparative Effectiveness in Practice and Policy
Health Economics and Cost Analyses
Clinical Strategies and Guidelines
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
Health Services Research & Policy
Medical Education and Decision Making
Pharmacoeconomics

Judgment and Decision Making
Judgment and Decision Making: Theory & Applications
Risk Perception and Communication
Preferences and Behaviors of Patients and Providers
Decision Aids

Advances in Quantitative Methods
Bayesian Methods, Analyses & Applications
Simulation & Decision Modeling

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Cost-effectiveness: Theory, Methods & Applications

Measurement of Health Status and Utility
Measurement of Health Status and Utility: Theory, Methods & Applications

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work at the SMDM 30th Annual Meeting, October 19 – 22, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA. Accepted abstracts will be published online in Medical Decision Making, SMDM’s peer-reviewed scientific journal. We look forward to your submissions, and we’ll see you in Philadelphia!

Sincerely,

Sandy Schwartz, MD and Seema Sonnad, PhD
Annual Meeting Chairs

Heather Taffet Gold, PhD, and Lisa Prosser, PhD
Scientific Review Committee Co-Chairs