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Medical Decision Making

Medical Decision Making

Official Journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making

eISSN: 1552681X | ISSN: 0272989X | Current volume: 45 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: 8 Times/Year

Medical Decision Making (MDM), a journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. 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. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please read more about the Journal on the website here: https://www.journals.smdm.org/

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/MDM

Medical Decision Making (MDM) offers rigorous and systematic approaches to decision making that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health policy development. Please see the Medical Decision Making Web site for more information.

Editor-in-Chief
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States)
Deputy Editor
Lauren E. Cipriano, PhD University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)
Associate Editors
Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee, United States)
Stefano Conti, MSc, PhD NHS England (London, United Kingdom)
Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD Stanford University (California, United States)
Joanna L. Hart, MD, MSHP University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States)
David W. Hutton, PhD University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States)
Olga Kostopoulou, MSc, PhD Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
Daniel D. Matlock, MD, MPH University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, United States
Eleanor M. Pullenayegum, PhD University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Donald A. Redelmeier, MD University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Louise B. Russell, PhD University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, United States)
Paul A. Scuffham, PhD Griffith University(Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Victoria A. Shaffer, PhD University of Missouri (Columbia, United States)
Kenneth J. Smith, MD, MS University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States)
Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen, MD, PhD, MPH University of Oslo (Norway), University of Southern Denmark (Odense)
James E. Stahl, MD, CM, MPH Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States)
Ewout W. Steyerberg, MSc, PhD University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Erika A. Waters, PhD, MPH Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States)
Nicky J. Welton, PhD University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
Torbjørn Wisløff, MSc, PhD Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
Feng Xie, BSc, MSc, PhD McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2025
Jorie Butler, PhD University of Utah (Salt Lake City, United States)
Kerri L. Cavanaugh, MD, MHS Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tennessee, United States)
Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, SM Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States)
Jarrod E. Dalton, PhD Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio, United States)
Koen Degeling, PhD GSK (Amersfoort, The Netherlands)
Elamin H. Elbasha, PhD Merck & Co. (West Point, Pennsylvania, United States)
Paul K. J. Han, MD, MA, MPH National Cancer Institute (Rockville, Maryland, United States)
Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH University of Illinois at Chicago (United States)
Quang A. Le, PhD Western University of Health Sciences (Pomona, California, United States)
Nan Luo, PhD National University of Singapore
Eric S. Meadows, PhD Flatiron Health (New York, United States)
Wendy L. Nelson, PMH, PhD, RN National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)
Semra Ozdemir, MS, PhD Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, United States)
Shijie (Kate) Ren, PhD University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England)
Aaron M. Scherer, MA, PhD University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States)
Kevin E. Tiede, PhD University of Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany)
Andrew J. Vickers, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York, United States)
Todd H. Wagner, PhD Stanford University (California, United States)
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2026
Anton Avanceña, MS, PhD The University of Texas at Austin (United States)
Sarah E. Bates, MSc, PhD University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England)
Mark Clements, PhD Karolinska Institutet (Solna, Sweden)
Helen A. Colby, PhD Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, United States)
Risha Gidwani, DrPH University of Colorado School of Medicine and RAND Corporation (Aurora, United States)
Sarah L. Goff, MD, PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst (United States)
Aubri S. Hoffman (Rose), PhD, MS Axle Informatics/NCATS/NIH (Bethesda, Maryland, United States); The University of Texas at Austin (United States)
Ellen A. Lipstein, MD, MPH Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Ohio, United States)
Michelle McDowell, PhD University of Potsdam (Germany)
Brooke Nickel, PhD University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
Mari Palta, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States)
Ankur Pandya, MPH, PhD Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Adam T. Perzynski, MA, PhD Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Valerie F. Reyna, PhD Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, United States)
Bram Roudijk, PhD EuroQol Research Foundation (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Laura D. Scherer, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine (Aurora, United States)
Karen R. Sepucha, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States)
Haitham W. Tuffaha, PhD University of Queensland (Australia)
Kathrene Valentine, MS, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States)
Vera Vennedey, MSc, PhD University of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Reza Yaesoubi, PhD Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
Jinyi Zhu, MPH, PhD Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, United States)
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2027
Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD Stanford University (California, United States)
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD, MSc University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy and Dornsife Department of Psychology, USA
Barry D. Dewitt, PhD Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Darryl T. Gray, MD, ScD, FACC, FAHA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
Janel Hanmer, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States)
Felicity W.K. Harper, PhD Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
Anna Heath, MMath, PhD University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and SickKids Research Institute (Ontario, Canada)
Jolyn Hersch, PhD, MAS University of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia)
Karen Hicklin, PhD, MS Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, United States)
Ashley J. Housten, OTD, MSCI, MPA Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, United States)
Robert L. Jayes, MD The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
Kristin Maki, PhD Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan, United States)
Donna Rowen, PhD, MSc University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Mohsen Sadatsafavi, MD, PhD University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
Gustav Tinghög, PhD Linköping University (Sweden)
Thomas Trikalinos, MD, PhD Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, United States)
Thomas Valley, MD, MSc University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, United States)
Matthijs Versteegh, PhD Huygens & Versteegh B.V. (Netherlands)
Nyantara Wickramasekera, MSc University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Haoyang Yan, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States)
Past Editors
Emeritus
Neal V. Dawson, MD Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Editorial Office
Stacy Wennstrom, MA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States)
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