Broadening Research Horizons - A Conference Proposal

修订后的摘要：医疗决策协会 (SMDM) 致力于推广合理、系统的方法来改善个人和公共卫生，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口头和海报演示。该协会的年会展示了当前的结果，这些结果代表了丰富的分析学科交叉领域，包括：决策分析、成本效益分析、成本效益分析、荟萃分析、模拟技术、决策技术和医学伦理学。只是本次会议强调的一些方法。 我们正在寻求对题为“情感、评估和决策：社会科学家探索理性极限”的研讨会的支持，该研讨会将向 SMDM 成员介绍领先心理学家和经济学家关于情感和决策的前沿研究。此外，我们寻求对由心理学家主持的两个短期课程的支持，他们的工作虽然与社会成员高度相关，但他们可能并不熟悉。研讨会和短期课程的目标包括： 向 SMDM 会员介绍与医疗决策相关的心理学和经济学前沿研究：促进会员对理性极限的理解；扩大卫生服务研究人员使用的社会科学方法的范围，以解决医疗决策中的重要主题。演讲和讨论将被编辑并发表在《医疗决策》杂志上，并通过协会的网站传播。研讨会和短期课程的拟议日期为2003年10月20日至10月22日。

Revised Abstract: The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) 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 include: decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, meta-analysis, simulation techniques, decision technology, and medical ethics. Just a few of the methodologies highlighted at this meeting. We are seeking support for a symposium titled: "Emotions, evaluations, and decision making: Social scientists explore the limits of rationality," which will introduce SMDM members to cutting-edge research from leading psychologists and economists on emotions and decision making. In addition, we seek support for two short courses led by psychologists, whose work, while highly relevant to society members, may not be familiar to them. The goals for the symposium and the short courses include: introducing SMDM members to cutting edge research in psychology and economics that is relevant to medical decision making: promoting members' understanding of the limits of rationality; and broadening the scope of social science methods used by health services researchers to address important topics in medical decision making. The presentations and discussion will be edited for publication in the journal Medical Decision Making, and also disseminated through the society's website. The proposed dates for the symposium and short courses are October 20 through October 22, 2003.