Overview of Oral Presentations and Poster Sessions

Click here to access detailed abstracts for Oral Presentations and Poster Sessions online.

Go to a variety of oral presentations. Ask questions. Don't feel that only the more senior members can ask questions following presentation of abstracts. Everyone is encouraged to make their way to the microphone - and to join the discussion. SMDM is a very friendly environment for our speakers - and our audience. Your questions will help clarify and challenge the science and strengthen its potential impact and perhaps modify its future direction.

SMDM receives many high quality abstract submissions for its annual meeting so many in fact that we can not accommodate them all as oral presentations. In the best interest to the attendees we share these highly informative abstracts through poster presentations so attendees will still benefit from the extensive information.

Poster sessions allow attendees to delve into and discuss the specifics of an abstract with the author in a one-on-one or small group setting. Approximately 40 - 50 posters will be presented at each session. Posters are changed for each session so be sure that you visit all poster sessions.

Poster Presenters click here for details on presenting your poster.

Abstracts will be presented in oral and poster sessions in the following categories.

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

• 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.