31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making October 18 - 21, 2009, Hollywood, California
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, being held in Hollywood, California this October. The meeting theme is "Clinical Decisions in Changing Environments: Patients, Providers, and Policy".
Again, this years SMDM abstract submission process will be fully electronic. The deadline for abstract submissions is Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Abstracts are being sought in the following categories.
Judgment and Decision Making
Theory
Applications
Risk Perception and Communication
Preferences and Behaviors of Patients and Providers
Decision Aids
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Theory
Methods
Applications
Health Services and Policy Research
Health Economics and Cost Analyses
Clinical Strategies and Guidelines
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
Health Policy
Medical Education and Decision Making
Pharmacoeconomics
Health Status and Preferences (including measurement of health status and utility, conjoint analysis studies)
Theory
Methods
Applications
Comparative Effectiveness
Clinical Decisions in Changing Environments: Patients, Providers, and Policy
Setting Priorities for Research
Meta-analysis
Diagnostic Errors in Medicine
Resources for Research: New category that includes demonstrations of software, decision aids, descriptions of newly available national datasets, etc. that do not meet the definition of original research but are likely to be of interest to the SMDM membership. Abstracts in this category will be considered for POSTER presentation only.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their work at the SMDM 31st Annual Meeting, October 18 - 21, 2009 in Hollywood, CA. Accepted abstracts will be published online in Medical Decision Making, SMDMs peer-reviewed scientific journal.
We look forward to your submissions, and well see you in Hollywood!
