Alan Schwartz

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“In theory, theory and practice are indistinguishable.
In practice, they are not.”

Proceedings of the Symbolic Logic Conference

The complete record of my scholarly work is my curriculum vitae.

Postings from the Contextualizing Care blog with Saul Weiner

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Postings from my Making Medical Decisions blog

  • Editorial blogging ? Alan Schwartz
    It’s been a busy couple of years since I last posted here, as I’ve been engaged in fascinating projects studying physicians’ skills at patient-centered decision making (discovering relevant individual …
  • Decisões Médicas Baseadas em Evidências ? Alan Schwartz
    The translation of Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide into Portuguese has been published by Guanabara Koogan SA as Decisões Médicas Baseadas em Evidências (“Medical decisions based on eviden …
  • Review in Annals of Internal Medicine ? Alan Schwartz
    This only came to my attention today, but MDM:APG was reviewed in Annals of Internal Medicine, a leading journal in the field, in March 2009. You can read the review online here. The post Review in An …
  • Mammography and decision making ? Alan Schwartz
    A little history for the non-US readers: the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent panel that reviews evidence and issues recommendations for preventive health care services. …
  • Helping students unlock the mysteries of Bayes ? George Bergus
    I am continually impressed by the link between seeing and understanding. This should not be surprising. How often have we had the experience of being told by a student (or colleague) that “I just don’ …
  • Review of MDM:APG ? Alan Schwartz
    Doody’s Review Service, widely used by medical libraries, now has the first formal review of Medical Decision Making: A Physician’s Guide. Here’s an excerpt: “a thoughtful exposition of the breadth of …
  • Internet-based decision aids and a new blog ? Alan Schwartz
    Brian Paciotti’s blog The Internet and the Geography of Medicine came to our attention when he recently published a nice review of some of the current knowledge about patient decision aids, and argued …
  • Lessons outside health care ? Alan Schwartz
    SMDM Annual Meeting Co-chairs Alan Schwartz and Brendan Delaney are pleased to announce the 2009 Annual Meeting will include a pre-meeting symposium on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Hollywood, Califor …
  • Decision making and comparative effectivness research ? Alan Schwartz
    I had planned to write a post pointing to the new background paper on comparative effectiveness research by the Society for Medical Decision Making, which I think does a very good job of explaining th …
  • Decision psychology and swine flu ? Alan Schwartz
    Behavioral economist (and 2009 President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making) Dan Ariely appeared on NPR’s Marketplace to discuss reasons for the swine flu panic. Read or listen to the int …