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Medical Decision Making (MDM) offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. The Journal presents theoretical, statistical, and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines, including decision psychology, health economics, clinical epidemiology, and evidence synthesis.
MDM promotes understanding of human decision-making processes so that individuals can make more informed and satisfying choices regarding their health.
Medical Decision Making focuses on important topics such as
- Optimal strategies for patient care and policy decision making
- Understanding individual and group decision-making processes
- Outcomes of decisions, their measurement, and valuation
- Risk communication, risk attitudes, and judgment
- Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions
- Methods for technology assessment, literature synthesis, and evidence-based decision making in specialties including HIV Disease and Pathways, Oncology, Cardio-Pulmonary Disease, Infectious Disease, Chronic Disease, Women’s Health/OB-GYN, Organ Transplantation, General Medicine, Pediatrics, and Gastroenterology.
Topics of special interest in 2005-2007 include decision making in
- Diagnostic strategies in global health
- Decision making in health behavior maintenance
- Public health emergencies, including bioterrorism
- Assessing the comparative effectiveness of clinical interventions
The Journal features several rotating departments including Outcomes Research, Health Outcomes and Preferences, Clinical Applications, Patient Preferences and Decision Psychology, Utility Assessment and Patient Preferences, Patient-Centered Decision-Making, Risk Perception, Methodology, Decision Support, Editorials, Commentaries, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts, and much more.
Thomson Reuters 2008 Journal Citation Reports®
2008 Ranking:
8/62 in Health Care Sciences & Services
3/20 in Medical Informatics
2008 Impact Factor: 2.929
