The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making:

Pre-Meeting Short Courses - AM Half Day

Sunday, October 23, 2011

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

AM1. ANALYZING PERSON-LEVEL COST-EFFECTIVENESS DATA: ESTIMATES AND UNCERTAINTY
Jeffrey Hoch, PhD, Elisabeth A.L. Fenwick, PhD and Katia Noyes, PhD

AM2. DETERMINISTIC DECISION ANALYTIC MODELS IN MICROSOFT EXCEL
Gregory S. Zaric, Ph.D, Lauren E. Cipriano, BSc, BA, PhD, Candidate, Eva Enns, MS, PhD Candidate and David W. Hutton, PhD

AM3. FOCUSED OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS: DOING MORE WITH EXISTING RESOURCES
Joseph S. Pliskin, PhD

AM4. INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Leslie Johns, PhD

AM5. INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION FOR HEALTHCARE
James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH and Steven Shechter, PhD

AM6. MDM 101: COMMON MDM METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH, Nananda F. Col, MD, MPH, MPP, Karen M. Kuntz, ScD, Peder A. Halvorsen, MD, PhD and Janel Hanmer

AM7. MEDICAL DECISION MAKING WITH BAYESIAN NETWORKS
Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH, MS, Mehmet U.S. Ayvaci, MS and Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD

AM8. MODELING APPROACHES FOR ANALYSING HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS – AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON
Beate Jahn, PhD, Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, SD, Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP, James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH and Sally Brailsford, MSc PhD

AM9. MULTICRITERIA METHODS FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
James G. Dolan, MD

AM10. PREDICTION MODELS IN MEDICINE: DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Michael W. Kattan, PhD, Ewout W. Steyerberg, PhD and Andrew Vickers, Ph.D.

AM11. PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
Robert M. Hamm, PhD and Jason W. Beckstead, PhD

AM12. SCALING METHODS IN HEALTH CARE: THEORY AND APPLICATION
Paul F.M. Krabbe, PhD and Alexander, M.M. Arons, MSc.

AM13. INTRODUCTION TO MEASURE THEORY FOR APPLIED RESEARCH: CORRECTING CONCEPTUAL MISTAKES in THE ANALYSIS OF DATA AND THE USE OF MULTI-LEVEL MODELS
Peter J. Veazie, PhD, MS and Viji Kannan

AM 14. INTRODUCTION TO DESIGNING EVIDENCE-BASED PATIENT DECISION AIDS
Deb Feldman-Stewart, PhD