by Marge Benham-Hutchins | May 21, 2014 |
An international conference addressing information technology and communication in health (ITCH) will be held February 26 – March 1, 2015 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Professor Stephen Hawking’s statement, “we learned to talk, we learned to listen, we...
by Ileana Balcu | Jul 24, 2012 |
Member Eve Harris wrote another great blog post for KQED – Public Media for Northern California. It is about one woman’s personal decision on how to treat her breast cancer. A short extract below: Basila is strong evidence that individuals react...
by Susannah Fox | May 31, 2012 |
J.R. Schmitt tipped me off to a fascinating article published in 1997 (!) about a “de-marketing strategy” for the use of general anesthesia in dentistry in the UK: De-marketing: Putting Kotler and Levy’s Ideas into Practice, by Steven Lawther, Gerard...
by Dave deBronkart | Jan 10, 2012 |
Edited a few minutes after the original post. Over on the Harvard Business Review blog a post yesterday is stirring up discussion. I hope well-informed SPM members can help shed some light in the comments there, citing as many specifics as you can. (As I compiled the...
by Dave deBronkart | Sep 23, 2011 |
In the past year I’ve come to see medical decision making as one of the key crucibles in which participatory medicine plays out. We’ve blogged several times about shared decision making (SDM), and by its nature it requires participatory thinking. A new...
by Dave deBronkart | Aug 23, 2011 |
Stop what you’re doing, as soon as possible, and spend 20 minutes watching this. It’s the most powerful short talk I’ve ever seen about health care. Our e-patient white paper is titled “e-Patients: How they can help heal healthcare.” In...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 18, 2011 |
Engaged patients and families, alert: the NY Times reports (here) on a form of unwarranted practice variation that has been exposing elders to excess radiation. Many smaller hospitals have been needlessly exposing their Medicare patients to double CT scans on the same...
by Dave deBronkart | Apr 6, 2011 |
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) has posted a three-part downloadable podcast about the Salzburg Statement. Part 1: History and current status of shared decision making. [26:04] Part 2: Vision of the future, and barriers to getting there. [23:31] Part 3: Informed...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 11, 2011 |
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes, in Scandal in Bohemia I’ve been reading Jack Wennberg’s new book Tracking Medicine, which is about his...
by Dave deBronkart | Feb 25, 2011 |
In December we posted about practice variation and shared decision making (SDM), a field of research originated at Dartmouth decades ago and best known as publisher of the Dartmouth Atlas, which describes the amazing amount of unexplained variation in how many doctors...
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