MDM Policy & Practice
Published in Association with Society for Medical Decision Making
eISSN:
23814683 | ISSN:
23814683 | Current volume: 10 | Current issue: 2
Frequency: Bi-annually
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. For more information, please visit the Journal website here. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The current article processing charge (APC) for this journal is currently USD $3,000. SMDM members may be eligible for a discounted APC of $2000 USD. The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
The current article processing charge (APC) for this journal is currently USD $3,000. SMDM members may be eligible for a discounted APC of $2000 USD. The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mdm-pp.
MDM Policy & Practice (MDM P&P) 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. For more information, please visit the Journal website here: https://www.journals.smdm.org/about-mpp/.
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) |
Advisory Committee
| Neal V. Dawson, MD (Emeritus) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, 2005-2012 | Oregon Health & Sciences University (Portland, United States) |
| Harold C. Sox, MD, MACP | Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, United States) |
Associate Editors
| Helen A. Colby, PhD | Indiana University Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, United States) |
| Stefano Conti, MSc, PhD | NHS England (London, United Kingdom) |
| Neal V. Dawson, MD (Emeritus) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) |
| 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 | Hospital for Sick Children, Canada |
| Donald A. Redelmeier, MD | University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) |
| 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 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 Department of Psychology, and Human Neuroscience Institute, Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research, USA |
| 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 | University of Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| Reza Yaesoubi, PhD | University of California, San Francisco (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 (Los Angeles, United States) |
| Barry D. Dewitt, PhD | Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Alistair Thorpe, PhD | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, United States) |
| Gustav Tinghög, PhD Gustav | 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) |
| Nyantara Wickramasekera, MSc | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) |
| Haoyang Yan, PhD | University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States) |
Editorial Board: Term Ending 2028
| Ash Bullement, MSc | University of York (United Kingdom) |
| Jorie Butler, PhD | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, United States) |
| Jarrod Dalton, PhD | Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute (Ohio, United States) |
| Tran T. Doan, PhD, MPH | Colorado School of Public Health (Aurora, United States) |
| Laura E. Brotzman, PhD, MPH | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, United States) |
| Elamin H. Elbasha, PhD | Merck & Co. (West Point, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| Masahito Jimbo, MD, PhD, MPH | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
| Sara Khor, PhD, MAS | Spring Health (United States) |
| Kyueun Lee, PhD, MS | University of Washington (Seattle, United States) |
| Nan Luo, PhD | National University of Singapore |
| Farrah Madanay, PhD, MA | Cleveland Clinic (Ohio, United States) |
| Eric S. Meadows, PhD | Flatiron Health (New York, United States) |
| Semra Ozdemir, MS, PhD | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, United States) |
| Shijie (Kate) Ren, PhD | University of Sheffield (South Yorkshire, England) |
| Louise B. Russell, PhD | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) |
| W. Alton Russell, PhD | McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| Aaron M. Scherer, MA, PhD | University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States) |
| Kevin E. Tiede, PhD | University of Erfurt (Erfurt, Germany) |
| Martin Vu, PhD, MPH | Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom) |
| Todd H. Wagner, PhD | Stanford University (California, United States) |
| Paul D. Windschitl, PhD, MS | University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States) |
| William W.L. Wong, PhD, MMath | University of Waterloo, (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) |
| Huaiyang Zhong, PhD, MS, B.Eng. | Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, United States) |
Past Editor
| Alan J. Schwartz, PhD, 2013-2020 | University of Illinois at Chicago (United States) |
Editorial Office
| Katherine Grandinetti, BS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
| Stacy Wennstrom, MA | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (United States) |
MDM Policy & Practice is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors are strongly encouraged to review the Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice website for information on manuscript requirements, manuscript submission, and the peer review process (single blind) at MDM P&P before submitting your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mdm-pp. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of MDM P&P will be reviewed.
If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license. SMDM members pay an article processing charge of $1,340, while non-members pay an article processing charge of $1,675. This will be payable upon acceptance.
MDM P&P publishes manuscripts under the Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC-BY NC), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. Alternative license arrangements are available, for example, to meet particular funder mandates, made at the author's request. Visit SAGE's OA licenses page for more information.
Please contact the MDM Editorial Office with any questions.