| Abstract Categories include: | • Pharmacoeconomics |
| | Health Status and Preferences (including
measurement of health status and utility, conjoint
analysis studies) |
| Judgment and Decision Making | |
| • Theory | |
| • Applications | • Theory |
| • Risk Perception and Communication | • Methods |
• Preferences and Behaviors of Patients and
Providers | • Applications |
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| • Decision Aids | Comparative Effectiveness |
| | • Clinical Decisions in Changing Environments: Patients, Providers, and Policy |
| Advances in Quantitative Methods | |
| • Bayesian Methods, Analyses & Applications | • Setting Priorities for Research |
| • Simulation & Decision Modeling | • Meta-analysis |
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| Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | Diagnostic Errors in Medicine |
| • Theory | |
| • Methods | Resources for Research: |
| • Applications | A 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. |
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| 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 | |
