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医学决策学会致力于促进合理和系统的方法来改善个人和公共健康，并为社会健康政策提供信息。学会成员利用多种途径传播其分析结果，包括传统印刷专业期刊出版物以及区域和国家口头和海报介绍。该学会年度会议的最新成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、荟萃分析、模拟技术、决策心理学和医学伦理学只是这次会议强调的几种方法。每个年度会议都有一个专题讨论会，突出一个特定的临床和公共卫生重要性领域。今年的研讨会题为“成本效益是否有影响？巴氏涂片的教训”，将重点介绍一系列对公众健康产生影响的分析。演讲者将以巴氏涂片为例，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：L)向观众解释在进行这些分析时所使用的分析技术和建模问题，以及2)与观众一起探讨这种分析如何突出公共政策决策和临床护理的领域。演讲和讨论将经过编辑，发表在《医疗决策》杂志的附录中。

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.