Patients who actively collaborate with their providers are more compliant and have better outcomes. Patient education and shared decision-making are critical elements along a person’s journey to ...

Improving patients’ shared decision-making abilities in healthcare requires arming them with timely, accurate, ...

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Lucille Hughes, DNP, MSN/ED, CDCES, BC-ADM, FADCES, about the benefits of collaborating with people with diabetes in their own self-management of the ...

We agree with Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and coauthors (Nov 2019) that policy initiatives on shared decision making (SDM) place undue emphasis on Eurocentric individualistic choices without adequately ...

An expert describes the patient advocate’s role in shared decision-making with a patient for novel therapeutic options. Sonya Negley, IOM, CSMA:It’s important to know that patient advocacy ...

Shared decision making (SDM)—when clinicians and patients make medical decisions together—is moving swiftly from an ethical ideal toward widespread clinical implementation affecting millions of ...

A Q&A with Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Editorial Director of Emmi Solutions. Shared decision making (SDM) is an important issue in today’s healthcare industry but implementation of the actual practice can be ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

The doctor-patient relationship is evolving from a paternalistic to a collaborative model of care across the rheumatology specialty. The days of a rheumatologist arriving at a treatment decision and ...

Across 65 cardiovascular guidelines with nearly 7500 specific recommendations published 2012-2022, only 170 recommendations directly incorporated shared decision-making. Shared decision-making (SDM) ...

Shared decision making is a collaborative process that involves a person and their healthcare professional working together to reach a joint decision about care. It could be care the person needs ...