Shared decision-making is a central component of patient-centered care in the emergency department (ED) and the intensive care unit (ICU). It is defined by the American College of Critical Care Medicine as "a collaborative process that allows patients, or their surrogates, and clinicians to ...
Deciding whether to go forward with LVAD is often difficult for patients. Yet until recently, there were few tools available for patients andhealth care providersto use in LVAD shared decision-making. "Because of this, the Colorado Program for Patient Centered Decisions spent years developing unbias...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Shared decision-making, which involves presenting choice, sharing personalized knowledge about options, and eliciting patients' values and preferences, is not only appropriate but encouraged under circumstances of uncertainty—that is, where no unequivocally superior choice...
When there are several treatment options, the trend for doctors to discuss all options with their patients and for the patient to share in the decision-making can improve patient satisfaction and result in value care. But such an approach is "only sometimes useful" when it comes to surgery, ...
BACKGROUND: Current evidence suggests that doctors do not always involve patients in decisions; this may be due to lack of training. This study explores the feasibility of using web based decision aids (DAs) to improve the skills of general practice registrars in sharing decisions with patients....
When the patients are excluded from the decision making regarding their health, their autonomy is not respected. This may make the patients feel like they are being treated as objects, with the consequent loss of trust in the doctor. An informed patient, that it, with their own criteria and...
Aims We aimed to identify and explain contextual factors and intervention mechanisms that influence patients experiences in making decisions about palliative treatments and supportive care, when supported with patient aids and shared decision-making approaches. Methods A realist review method (co-produced ...
Shared decision-making (SDM) is a hallmark of patient-centred care that uses informed consent to help guide patients with making complex health-care decisions. In SDM, patients and providers work together to determine the best course of action based on b
Abstract P116: Differences In Shared Decision Making Among Patients With Hypertension doi:10.1161/hyp.80.suppl_1.P116HypertensionessentialRaceEthnicityBackground: Shared decision-making (SDM) is sanctioned by US legislation and promoted by hypertension guidelines. However, evidence is scarce for ethnically...
Five patients with genetically proven RPE65 deficiency took part in this study. They were asked to complete the German versions of (i) the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-D), (ii) the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ), (iii) the Shared Decision Making ...