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医疗决策学会致力于促进合理和系统的方法，以改善个人和公共健康，并为社会卫生政策提供信息。协会成员利用多种途径传播他们的分析结果，包括传统的印刷专业期刊出版物，以及区域和国家的口头和海报介绍。该协会的年度会议以当前的结果为特色，这些结果代表了分析学科的丰富横截面：决策分析，成本效益分析，成本效益分析，元分析，模拟技术，决策心理学和医学伦理学只是本次会议强调的一些方法。每届年会都有一个专题讨论会，突出一个具有临床和公共卫生重要性的特定领域。今年的研讨会主题是“成本效益有影响吗？”《子宫颈抹片检查的教训》，将重点介绍对公共卫生产生影响的一系列分析。演讲者将以子宫颈抹片检查为例，讨论经济评估对临床实践和公共政策的影响。研讨会的目标包括：1)向听众解释在进行这些分析时使用的分析技术和遇到的建模问题；2)与听众一起探讨这些分析如何突出公共政策决策和临床护理领域。报告和讨论将被编辑出版在医学决策杂志的增刊上。

The Society for Medical Decision Making dedicates its efforts to promoting rational and systematic approaches to improving individual and public health, and informing societal health policy. Society members utilize multiple routes to disseminate the results of their analyses, including traditional print professional journal publications, and regional and national oral and poster presentations. The Society's annual meeting features current results which represent a rich cross-section of analytic disciplines: decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, meta-analysis, simulation techniques, decision psychology, and medical ethics represent just a few of the methodologies highlighted at this meeting. Each annual meeting features a symposium that highlights a particular area of clinical, public health importance. This year's symposium, "Does Cost- effectiveness Make a Difference? Lessons from Pap Smears", will highlight a series of analyses which have had public health impact. Using the Pap smear example, the speakers will discuss the impact economic evaluations can have on clinical practice and public policy. The goals for the symposium include: l) to explicate for the audience the analytical techniques used and modeling issues encountered in conducting these analyses, and 2) explore with the audience how such analyses can highlight areas for public policy decisions and clinical care. The presentations and discussion will be edited for publication in a supplement to the journal Medical Decision Making.