Advancing Research on Improving Medical Decision Making Among Aging Populations

描述（由申请人提供）：关于决策中的年龄差异的证据仍在不断发展，但经验和审议过程中的年龄差异已经出现，并对决策产生重要影响。这些发现可能对行为经济学应用于卫生保健的设计和发展以及使用决策辅助工具使患者参与共同医疗决策具有重要意义。因此，本R13申请的目的是在SMDM年会上提供一个论坛，以交流和传播与行为经济学和决策援助发展领域的老龄化研究相关的结果和新兴趋势。医疗决策学会是一个专业的研究组织，旨在促进医疗决策和行为科学的科学和方法的严谨性，并将其应用于临床护理和卫生政策。SMDM的年会是该组织教育和培训活动的焦点。年会定期吸引500 - 600名与会者。会议提供了一个论坛，介绍基于决策和行为理论的新研究，以及应用于门诊护理、医院医学和公共卫生领域的健康相关决策的分析模型。会议包括研究报告、主题演讲、专题讨论会和短期课程，为与会者提供探索医疗决策中不同主题的机会。我们计划在接下来的三届医学决策学会年度会议上，在行为经济学和决策辅助开发方面开发与衰老相关的具体研究项目，以促进共同决策。在2011年的会议上，我们计划了2个专题讨论会，1个主题演讲，2个新的短期课程和1个口头摘要会议来实现这些目标。这些2011年的计划都是围绕着行为经济学的主题来组织的。在随后两年的会议中，我们将组织1次专题讨论会，1次口头摘要会议和2个短期课程来实现我们的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The evidence about age differences in decision-making is still evolving, yet age differences in experiential and deliberative processes have emerged and have important implications for decision making. These findings could have important implications for the design and development of behavioral economics applied to health care and for the use of decision aids to involve patients in shared medical decision making. Thus, the aim of this R13 application is to provide a forum within the annual meeting of SMDM to communicate and disseminate results and emerging trends related to aging-specific research in the fields of behavioral economics and decision aid development. The Society for Medical Decision-Making is a professional research organization that promotes scientific and methodological rigor in health care decision and behavioral science and their application to clinical care and health policy. SMDM's Annual Meeting is the focal point of the organization's educational and training activities. The annual meeting regularly attracts 500 - 600 attendees. The meeting provides a forum for presentation of novel research based on decision and behavior theory and analytical models applied to health related decisions in ambulatory care, hospital medicine, and public health domains. Conference sessions include research presentations, keynote talks, special symposia and short courses that offer attendees the opportunity to explore diverse topics in medical decision making. We plan to develop specific program of aging related research in behavioral economics and decision aid development for shared decision making over the next three annual meetings for the Society of Medical Decision Making. For the meeting in 2011 we are planning 2 symposia, 1 keynote speaker, 2 new short courses, and 1 oral abstract session to accomplish these aims. These plans for 2011 are organized around the theme of behavioral economics. For the meeting in the two subsequent years we will organize 1 symposium, 1 oral abstract session and 2 short courses to accomplish our aim. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: By providing a forum within the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision for dissemination of results and merging trends related to aging-specific research in the fields of behavioral economics and decision aid development, this project aims to improve shared medical decision making and thereby enhance the health and health care of aging populations.