Participants are welcome to submit abstracts.  Abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance on their scientific merit and should be clearly written.

Presenters are invited to submit abstracts on the topics that are listed, but are not limited, to those mentioned.

APPLIED AREAS:  
Clinical Strategies or Guidelines                         
Cognition, Attitudes, Psychology
Disease Management
Ethical and Legal Issues
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Economics
Health Policy
Health Services Research
Informatics
Outcome Assessment
Patient Education
Quality of Care
Risk Attitudes
Risk Communication
Shared Decision Making
Technology Assessment

METHODOLOGICAL AREAS:
Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, and Expert Systems
Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Cost-Identification Analysis
Database Strategies
Decision Analysis
Descriptive Studies
Epidemiology
Statistics
Utility Theory

Kindly specify if you would prefer an oral or poster presentation

The authors will be informed in due time whether their abstracts have been accepted, and whether for oral or poster presentation. We ask our colleagues to understand that the number of slots for oral presentations is limited. Therefore, some presenters may be asked to adapt their presentations to posters. Inclusion of abstracts in the scientific program is dependent on payment of registration fees.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: February 15, 2008

Abstracts must be submitted in English and sent as an email attachment to: smdm@targetconf.com

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ABSTRACTS

• Title should be typed in CAPITAL LETTERS, bold and left aligned.
• Presenting author’s name should be underlined and bolded.
• Font: Times New Roman, size 12 points, single spacing.
• If submitting more than one abstract, each abstract must be sent as a separate e-mail message and the title should indicate that these are separate abstracts, i.e. JILL BROWN ABSTRACT 1; JILL BROWN ABSTRACT 2; etc.
• Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
• No end–notes, diagrams or frames are acceptable
• Please note: Faxed abstracts will not be accepted