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MDM Policy & Practice (MDM P&P), a journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, is an Open Access journal that offers rigorous and systematic applications of decision science that are designed to improve the health and clinical care of individuals and to assist with health-policy development. MDM P&P focuses on the application of current theories, methods, and approaches from a variety of disciplines to important problems facing clinical and health policy decision-makers, including patients, providers, producers, and payers. View full journal description

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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Translation, Adaptation, and Validation of the French Version of the Low Literacy Decisional Conflict Scale in Adolescents

  • Dehlia Moussaoui
  • Victoria L. Crofts
  • Nicolas Silvestrini
  • Thomas Agoritsas
  • Arnaud Merglen
  • Michal Yaron
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Implementing a Colorectal Cancer Screening Decision Aid via Text Messaging in a Large Massachusetts Health Care System

  • Kim Ariyabuddhiphongs
  • Timothy Carey
  • Emily A. Wolfson
  • Spencer Rittner
  • Jonathan Li
  • Maëlys Amat
  • Mara A. Schonberg
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Estimating Lifetime Drinking Trajectories for Alcohol Use from Adolescence to Older Adulthood in the United States: A Three-Step Approach

  • Md Zubab Ibne Moid
  • Jeremy W. Bray
  • Martijn Van Hasselt
  • Carolina Barbosa
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Divergence in Perceptions of Shared Decision Making in Pediatric Neuromuscular Scoliosis

  • Jody L. Lin
  • Angela Zhu
  • Marla L. Clayman
  • Kimberly A. Kaphingst
  • Kaleb G. Eppich
  • Greg Stoddard
  • Lindsay Andras
  • Unni G. Narayanan
  • Heather T. Keenan
  • Tamara D. Simon
  • Steven M. Asch
  • Angela Fagerlin
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Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) statement: updated reporting guidance for health economic evaluations

  • Don Husereau
  • Michael Drummond
  • Federico Augustovski
  • Esther de Bekker-Grob
  • Andrew H Briggs
  • Chris Carswell
  • Lisa Caulley
  • Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
  • Dan Greenberg
  • Elizabeth Loder
  • Josephine Mauskopf
  • C Daniel Mullins
  • Stavros Petrou
  • Raoh-Fang Pwu
  • Sophie Staniszewska
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Access Is Necessary but Not Sufficient: Factors Influencing Delay and Avoidance of Health Care Services

  • Kyle T. Smith
  • Denise Monti BA
  • Nageen Mir MPH
  • Ellen Peters PhD
  • Renuka Tipirneni MD
  • Mary C. Politi PhD
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Examining the Role of Stress and Team Support in Decision Making under Uncertainty and Time Pressure

  • Sana Younas
  • Saeeda Khanum
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Evaluation of the Soda Tax on Obesity and Diabetes in California: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

  • Fan Zhao
  • Risha Gidwani
  • May C. Wang
  • Liwei Chen
  • Roch A. Nianogo
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Scope, Methods, and Overview Findings for the Making Numbers Meaningful Evidence Review of Communicating Probabilities in Health: A Systematic Review

  • Jessica S. Ancker
  • Natalie C. Benda
  • Mohit M. Sharma
  • Stephen B. Johnson
  • Michelle Demetres
  • Diana Delgado
  • Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
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Understanding and Bridging Gaps in the Use of Evidence from Modeling for Evidence-Based Policy Making in Nigeria’s Health System

  • Chinyere Mbachu
  • Prince Agwu
  • Felix Obi
  • Obinna Onwujekwe
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Informed Random Forest to Model Associations of Epidemiological Priors, Government Policies, and Public Mobility

  • Tsaone Swaabow Thapelo
  • Dimane Mpoeleng
  • Gregory Hillhouse
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How Point (Single-Probability) Tasks Are Affected by Probability Format, Part 2: A Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review

  • Jessica S. Ancker
  • Natalie C. Benda
  • Mohit M. Sharma
  • Stephen B. Johnson
  • Michelle Demetres
  • Diana Delgado
  • Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
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The Making Numbers Meaningful Systematic Review
The Value of Malaria Vaccination in Africa
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Health Care Policy
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Editorial Team

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)

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We are pleased to announce that MDM Policy & Practice is now indexed in Web of Science's Emerging Sciences Citation Index (ESCI).
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