JOURNAL NAME：Medical Decision Making

ISSN：0272-989X

EISSN：1552-681X

EDITION：Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)；Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)

PUBLISHER：SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY：8 issues/year

AIMS AND SCOPE：

Published eight times a year, MDM presents theoretical, statistical, and modeling techniques and methods from a variety of disciplines including decision psychology, health economics, clinical epidemiology, and evidence synthesis. MDM promotes understanding of human decision-making processes so that individuals can make more informed and satisfying choices regarding their health.

MDM focuses on important topics such as:

•Optimal strategies for patient care and policy decision making

•Understanding individual and group decision-making processes

•Outcomes of decisions, their measurement, and valuation

•Risk communication, risk attitudes, and judgment

•Methods to teach about and improve actual decisions (e.g., decision aids)

•Methods for technology assessment, literature synthesis, comparative effectiveness research, and evidence-based decision making