by Amy Camie | Sep 21, 2021 |
Years before the first of my two breast cancer diagnoses, I shared live harp music in chemotherapy infusion units, spoke to support groups about the healing power of music, and developed a clinical trial exploring the effects of specific music on patients undergoing...
by Danny Sands, MD | May 14, 2021 |
The pressures of healthcare payment has forced physicians to move patients through the office as quickly as possible, and that is robbing us of high-value services that we can provide, particularly to educate and engage in shared decision making with our patients. I...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Nov 9, 2020 |
Person-included research, co-production, tragedy, grief, health equity, and relationships in life and research. Chat with Amy Price of Stanford and BMJ Proem Research follows life. Life comes before research. My diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis preceded my need for...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 27, 2019 |
This is a guest post by SPM member, heart patient and author Elizabeth Rankin, BScN. Some background: one of the most-discussed topics on our blog is shared decision-making (SDM), with pages and pages of posts (75 in the category), dating back to 2010’s Salzburg...
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 20, 2018 |
This will be the third, and last, in my short series on attending the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September of this year. In the first post, I talked about what that conference was like; in the second, I shared an overview of Cochrane as a global movement to...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2018 |
[Update: this post has been picked up and cross-posted on the widely read The Health Care Blog] Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct....
by Danny van Leeuwen | Oct 7, 2018 |
Clinical decision support researchers, developers, and implementers this is for you. Clinical decision support (CDS) technology can maximize trust and engagement during decision-making if used to its full potential. Or NOT. Consider the patient and family perspective...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 17, 2018 |
For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Casey will be a speaker at #SPM2018 on Oct 17, in a session with Ivan Handler of the Insightamation blog – “Thoughts and provocations on...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Mar 28, 2018
Introduction SPM member, Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats, introduces a new blog sponsored by the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support-Learning Network: Patient Expertise: Sharing and informing choices to connect research and clinical experience. Patient expertise...
by Michael Millenson | Nov 15, 2017 |
Baseball, like medicine, is deeply imbued with a sense of tradition, and no team more so than the New York Yankees, disdainful of innovations like placing players’ names on the backs of their jerseys and resistant to eroding strict standards related to haircuts and...
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