The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making:

Pre-Meeting Short Courses - AM Half Day

Sunday, October 24, 2010 - Pre-Meeting Short Courses

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

AM1

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING WITH BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD and Mehmet Ayvaci, MS

AM2

MDM 101: COMMON MDM METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH, James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Karen M. Kuntz, ScD, Nananda F. Col, MD, MPH, MPP and Alan Schwartz, PhD

AM3

MODELING APPROACHES FOR ANALYSING HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS – AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON
Beate Jahn, PhD, James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP, Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, SD and Sally Brailsford, MSc PhD

AM4

MICROSOFT EXCEL: BASIC SKILLS FOR EFFICIENCY AND MODELING
Gregory S. Zaric, PhD, Lauren E. Cipriano, BSc, BA, PhD Candidate, Eva Enns, MS, PhD Candidate and David W. Hutton, PhD

AM5

INCORPORATING QUALITY OF LIFE INTO ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS: HEALTH UTILITIES MEASUREMENT
Feng Xie, PhD and Eleanor Pullenayegum, PhD

AM6

INTRODUCTION TO DESIGNING EVIDENCE-BASED PATIENT DECISION AIDS
Deb Feldman-Stewart, PhD and Arwen H. Pieterse, PhD

AM7

BASIC PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
Robert M. Hamm, PhD, Marieke De Vries, PhD and Jef Van den Ende, PhD

AM8

PROPENSITY SCORE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CAUSAL TREATMENT EFFECTS USING OBSERVATIONAL DATA
Peter C. Austin, Phd

AM9

THE THRESHOLD TECHNIQUE: HOW DOES THIS RESEARCH METHOD WORK ANYWAY?
R. Trafford Crump, PhD

AM10

METHODS FOR BUILDING ARCHIMEDES-TYPE MODELS
David Eddy, MD, PhD