Support of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

描述(由申请人提供)：摘要：医学决策学会(SMDM)是一个专业的学术组织，旨在促进卫生保健决策和行为科学的科学和方法的严格性，以及它们在临床护理和卫生政策中的应用。SMDM广泛的、多学科的成员研究重点是促进对临床决策和行为的理性、系统分析，以改善卫生保健和为卫生政策提供信息。SMDM年会是该组织教育和培训活动的焦点，为介绍新的卫生服务和基于政策的研究提供了一个论坛。促进科学理解和改善患者结果的核心是能够严格评估医疗干预的增量价值，并将这些知识整合到决策和实践中。2008年10月18日至22日在费城举行的SMDM第30届年会的主题是 “比较有效性--从理论到实践：挑战与机遇”，这是AHRQ的一个重要优先事项。今年的计划包括一系列整合的主旨演讲、研讨会、研讨会、短期课程和原创研究报告，强调严格评估替代医疗干预的好处、风险和成本的价值和方法，并有效地将政策卫生保健和行为落实到实践中，改善患者的机会和结果。会议有一个积极的指导部分，强调在医疗决策和行为方面发展和培养年轻的研究人员，他们寻求作为独立的、面向临床的卫生服务和政策结果研究人员的职业生涯。要求人事厅提供资金，用于支付与主旨演讲、关于比较有效性研究和政策挑战的三个特别专题讨论会和五个短期课程有关的费用，这些短期课程提供关于改进替代医疗干预措施的比较评估和采用有效做法和行为的入门和高级培训。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): Abstract: The Society for Medical Decision-Making (SMDM) is a professional, academic organization that promotes scientific and methodological rigor in health care decision and behavioral sciences and their application to clinical care and health policy. SMDM's broad, multi-disciplinary membership research focus is the promotion of rational, systematic analysis of clinical decision making and behavior to improve health and health care and inform health policy. SMDM's Annual Meeting is the focal point of the organization's educational and training activities, providing a forum for presentation of novel health services and policy research based. Central to advancing scientific understanding and improving patient outcomes is the ability to rigorously assess the incremental value of medical interventions and integrate this knowledge into decision making and practice. The theme of SMDM's 30th Annual Meeting October 18-22, 2008 in Philadelphia, is "Comparative Effectiveness - From Theory to Practice: Challenges and Opportunities," an important AHRQ priority. This year's program includes an integrated series of keynote talks, symposia, workshops, short courses, and original research presentations that highlight the value and methods of rigorously assessing the benefits, risks and costs of alternative medical interventions, and effectively implementing into practice and policy health care and behaviors that improve patient access and outcomes. The meeting has an active mentoring component, emphasizing development and nurturing of young investigators in health care decision making and behavior who seek careers as independent, clinically oriented health services and policy outcomes researchers. AHRQ funding is requested to support the costs associated with the keynote talk, three special symposia on comparative effectiveness research and policy challenges and five short courses that provide introductory and advanced training in improving the comparative assessment of alternative medical interventions and adoption of effective practices and behavior.