Broadening Research Horizons - A Conference Proposal

修订摘要：医学决策学会（SMDM）致力于促进合理和系统的方法来改善个人和公共健康，并为社会卫生政策提供信息。学会成员利用多种途径传播其分析结果，包括传统的印刷专业期刊出版物以及区域和国家口头和海报介绍。该学会的年会展示了当前的成果，这些成果代表了分析学科的丰富横截面，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。这只是这次会议上强调的几种方法。 我们正在寻求支持的专题讨论会题为：“情绪，评估和决策：社会科学家探索理性的极限，”这将介绍SMDM成员从领先的心理学家和经济学家对情绪和决策的前沿研究。此外，我们寻求支持由心理学家领导的两个短期课程，他们的工作虽然与社会成员高度相关，但他们可能不熟悉。研讨会和短期课程的目标包括：向SMDM成员介绍与医疗决策相关的心理学和经济学前沿研究;促进成员对理性限度的理解;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问题。演讲和讨论将被编辑出版在医学决策杂志上，并通过该协会的网站传播。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.