Mission
Statement
The Society for Medical Decision Making's mission is to
improve health outcomes through the advancement of proactive
systematic approaches to clinical decision making and
policy-formation in health care by providing a scholarly
forum that connects and educates researchers, providers,
policy-makers, and the public.
 Goals
- Improve the health and clinical care of individuals
and assist health policy formation by developing and
promoting the use of systematic methods to deal with
the uncertainties of health care decisions.
- Foster and promote research for medical (health
care) decision making.
- Advance the scientific basis for and foster synergies
between multiple areas relevant to medical decision
making. These areas include decision analysis, meta-analysis,
predictive modeling, disease progression modeling,
cognitive psychology, shared decision making, quality
of life assessment, utility elicitation, health outcomes
assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, health economics,
pharmacoeconomics, technology assessment, evidence-based
medicine, medical informatics, constraint theory,
and discrete event simulation.
- Develop and evaluate tools for shared decision-making
with patients and the public.
- Develop and evaluate techniques for assisting clinician's
decision making under uncertainty.
- Advance the scientific basis of the field by holding
scholarly meetings, offering courses, publishing a
highly ranked peer-reviewed journal, and providing
information through the Society's website.
- Provide a training ground for scholars in the field
of medical decision making.
- Serve as an incubator for the generation of new
knowledge, methodological advances, and career development
in decision sciences in healthcare.
- Foster and promote international exchange and synergies
between health care decision making scholars from
different countries.
- Provide a forum and professional home for our members
where they can benefit from support and feedback from
peers and be inspired and energized by the peer interaction.
Members
The Society's diverse membership includes trainees to
senior researchers as well as educators, clinicians,
managers, and policy makers. Members come from a variety
of backgrounds and academic disciplines and from various
countries. They work in hospitals, universities, corporations,
foundations, and government agencies across the globe.
Trainee members study in programs ranging from health
services and outcomes research to medical informatics,
decision science, public health, and health care administration;
clinical trainees come from residencies and fellowships
in virtually all medical disciplines.
Values
We value interdisciplinary scholarship and a global
perspective on health care. Methodological excellence,
both in breadth and depth, is important to us. At the
same time we value the inspiring, energizing, respectful,
collegial, and friendly learning environment that the
Society provides. By being connected to the health care
enterprise in diverse ways we hope to have a positive
impact on decision making in health care.
Vision
Our vision is that systematic proactive approaches should
be used for decision making in health care. We are promoting
an integrated approach to health care decision making
based on multiple perspectives and expertise from multiple
disciplines. Optimal communication among those involved
in healthcare decisions will facilitate informed and
shared decision-making by policy-makers, physicians,
patients, and the public.
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