Copies of the two page survey were passed out at the 1996 annual
meeting and were included in the SMDM Newsletter that went out
in December, with a January 31 deadline. 44 were returned at the
meeting (or mailed soon thereafter), and eleven were returned
from the newsletter, for a total of 55 responses. Respondents
provided this information about themselves. Seven were from Canada,
eight from Europe, one from Israel, and 39 from the US.
| Category count | |||
| Age | 41.91 | ||
| Sex | 25 Female
29 Male | ||
| Academic degree | 31 MD
13 PhD 2 RN 1 MA 1MBA 1 ScD 1 PhD Student | ||
| SMDM member | 49 members
4 nonmembers | ||
| Since when | 1990.29 | ||
| # Short courses attended, and year:
1991 short courses | 21 | 17 | 1.24 |
| 1992 short courses | 25 | 19 | 1.32 |
| 1993 short courses | 30 | 21 | 1.43 |
| 1994 short courses | 37 | 25 | 1.48 |
| 1995 short courses | 31 | 22 | 1.41 |
| 1996 short courses | 63 | 42 | 1.50 |
| Total short courses | 207 | 146 | 1.42 |
The next table shows the mean of the respondent's rated probabilities
that he or she would attend each course some time during the next
5 years. Blanks were coded as 0 probability as long as the respondent
had given an estimate for at least one course. If the respondent
had attended the course before, and put 0 probability for attending
it again, this was removed from the denominator. If they indicated
that they had attended already, but would have a probability of
attending again, this probability was included in the average.
| Utility | |
| Alternative (descriptive) utility models: prospect theory, rank-dependent utility theory, regret theory | 0.35 |
| Incorporating patient preferences w/o measuring utilities. | 0.33 |
| Cumulative prospect theory | 0.25 |
| Utility elicitation in clinical research | 0.24 |
| QALYs, HYEs, and WTP. | 0.24 |
| Analytic hiererchy process | 0.20 |
| Person tradeoff approach to valuing health states | 0.19 |
| 0.26 | |
| Statistics and research methods | |
| Classical and Bayesian meta-analysis. | 0.36 |
| Regression analysis using statistical packages. | 0.29 |
| Regression modelling | 0.27 |
| Bayesian statistics. | 0.27 |
| Qualitative research methods. | 0.25 |
| Methods for modelling binary data | 0.22 |
| Artificial neural networks | 0.19 |
| 0.26 | |
| Decision analysis | |
| Markov models | 0.39 |
| Cost-effectiveness analysis | 0.33 |
| Advanced decision analysis | 0.24 |
| Influence diagrams and belief networks | 0.19 |
| Basics of decision analysis | 0.11 |
| 0.25 | |
| Clinical applications | |
| Disease management (linking DA, clinical guidelines, and evidence) | 0.32 |
| Evidence based medicine & bedside decision making | 0.26 |
| Using the internet for evidence based medicine. | 0.20 |
| Expert decision support: computer decision aids. | 0.19 |
| Medical informatics: common interests with MDM | 0.13 |
| 0.22 | |
| Grand Scale Analysis | |
| Economic aspects of clinical practice guidelines | 0.31 |
| Developing and implementing practice guidelines | 0.30 |
| Health and economic outcome evaluation of pharmaceuticals | 0.28 |
| Clinical policy making and implementation. | 0.21 |
| Quantitative policy analysis | 0.20 |
| Total quality management in health care | 0.14 |
| Judicial interpretations: malpractice, informed consent, decisional capacity | 0.13 |
| The health care market & managed competition. | 0.12 |
| 0.21 | |
| Psychology | |
| Changing physician behavior. | 0.25 |
| Modeling physician decision behavior from clinical records | 0.24 |
| Advanced decision psychology: current topics | 0.22 |
| Practice variation and decision psychology | 0.18 |
| Social Judgment Theory: medical applications | 0.16 |
| The art of medicine: experience and intuition. | 0.15 |
| Psychology of MDM: basic course. | 0.14 |
| Group decisions: SJT and decision conferencing | 0.14 |
| Judgment policy analysis and cognitive feedback | 0.10 |
| 0.18 | |
| Diagnosis | |
| Meta analysis of diagnostic test evaluations | 0.22 |
| Estimation of ROC curves | 0.14 |
| Advanced diagnostic testing | 0.13 |
| Basic diagnostic test evaluation | 0.08 |
| 0.14 | |
| Education | |
| Strategies for teaching MDM | 0.20 |
| Integrating MDM in medical education | 0.10 |
| 0.15 |
Robert M. Hamm, PhD, Associate Professor
Director, Clinical Decision Making Program
Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine,
U of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
900 NE 10th St., Oklahoma City OK 73104
405/271-8000 x 32306 Fax 405/271-2784
rob-hamm@ouhsc.edu http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/index.htm
Last modified: February 27, 1997