Better Decisions, Better Care: Theories of Medical Decision Making and Health

描述(由申请人提供)：医学决策学会(SMDM)致力于促进对医疗保健决策和政策倡议的严谨、科学研究。在超过四分之一个世纪的时间里，它一直处于研究决策和开发支持工具以提高患者护理质量的前沿。虽然这些临床方法和工具已经在医学期刊上报道，并在许多医疗保健环境中使用，但一些障碍限制了它们在实时决策中更广泛的采用和使用。一个主要障碍是缺乏连贯的、基于证据的预测性科学理论。此外，最近患者决策辅助工具的激增以及广泛的消费者、研究人员和政策制定者的使用，使得对其质量的标准化评估变得更加关键。为了解决这些问题，今年年会的主题是更好的决策，更好的护理：推进决策支持，以改善卫生保健。今年会议的一个主要特点将是一个研讨会，致力于提出领先的、有经验支持的医疗决策和健康理论。 该学会的年会(2006年10月14日至18日)展示了当前在决策分析、共享决策制定、循证医学、成本效益分析、卫生经济学、荟萃分析、计算方法、决策心理学和医学伦理学等学科领域的最新研究。我们为一个研讨会、一个研讨会和9个短期课程寻求支持。第二次研讨会，医疗决策和健康的理论，将提出健康和医疗决策中经过经验检验的科学严谨的解释性和预测性理论。研讨会将汇集医疗决策中有影响力的和多样化的理论的主要支持者，并将强调在具有实际意义的领域进行理论驱动的研究的必要性，包括健康中的行为变化、癌症预防和控制以及医生决策和决策支持。我们的晚餐研讨会，通过建立最先进的内容标准来改善患者的决策辅助：IPDAS项目，将有决策辅助开发和评估方面的专家参加。短期课程将帮助与会者掌握与会议主题相关的技能。 研讨会的摘要将刊登在学会的通讯中，并通过学会的网站进行传播。此外，《医学决策》杂志的编辑已经热情地同意，如果能够获得资金，将把会议记录作为特刊发表(研讨会参与者将投稿)。我们预计，拟议的计划可以在传播研究方面取得重大进展，这些研究说明了患者、医生和卫生保健团队成员进行实时决策的循证方法。这是一个对现状提出强有力的智力挑战的场所，可以让该领域最优秀的研究人员参与进来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) is dedicated to promoting rigorous, scientific research on health care decisions and policy initiatives. For over a quarter century, it has been on the cutting edge in studying decision making and developing support tools to improve the quality of patient care. While these clinical approaches and tools have been reported in medical journals and employed in numerous health care settings, several barriers have limited their more widespread adoption and use for real-time decision making. A major impediment has been the lack of coherent and evidence-based predictive scientific theory. In addition, the recent proliferation of patient decision aids and their use by a wide range of consumers, researchers and policy-makers makes standardized evaluation of their quality more crucial. To address these issues, the theme of this year's annual meeting is Better Decisions, Better Care: Advancing Decision Support to Improve Health Care. A key feature of this year's meeting will be a symposium devoted to presenting leading, empirically supported theories of medical decision making and health. The Society's Annual Meeting (October 14 -18, 2006) features current research in a rich cross-section of disciplines including decision analysis, shared decision making, evidence based medicine, cost effectiveness analysis, health economics, meta-analysis, computational methods, decision psychology, and medical ethics. We seek support for one symposium, a workshop, and 9 short courses. Symposium #2, Theories of Medical Decision Making and Health, will present scientifically rigorous explanatory and predictive theories in health and medical decision making that have been tested empirically. The symposium will bring together leading proponents of influential and diverse theories in medical decision making, and will emphasize the need for theoretically motivated research in domains of practical importance, including behavior change in health, cancer prevention and control, and physician decision making and decision support. Our dinner symposium, Improving Patient Decision-aids by Establishing State-of-the-art Standards for Content: The IPDAS Project, will feature experts in decision aid development and evaluation. The Short Courses will help attendees acquire skills related to the conference theme. Summaries of the symposia will be published in the Society's newsletter and disseminated through the Society's website. Furthermore, the Editor of the journal Medical Decision Making has enthusiastically agreed to publish the proceedings from the conference as a special issue (symposium participants will contribute articles), if funding can be obtained. We anticipate that the proposed program can make major strides toward disseminating research illustrating evidence-based approaches to real time decision-making by patients, physicians, and members of the health care team. This is a venue in which strong intellectual challenges to the status quo can engage the best researchers in the field.