practice variation

Whither Cochrane, for e-patients and everyone else?

by Casey Quinlan | Oct 20, 2018 | 3 comments

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...

Putting Patients at the Center of Pain Management Decisions

by Danny van Leeuwen | Oct 7, 2018 | 1 comment

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...

Patients Invited! Health Informatics Conference seeks Patient Participation

by Marge Benham-Hutchins | May 21, 2014 | 1 comment

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...

What Do ‘Engaged’ Patients Do?

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 24, 2012 | 0 comments

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...

A “de-marketing strategy”

by Susannah Fox | May 31, 2012 | 3 comments

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...

HBR blog: “The trouble with treating patients as consumers”

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 10, 2012 | 3 comments

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...

Your Medical Mind: New book on your medical decision making process

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 23, 2011 | 6 comments

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...

“Who Can Fix Health Care?” Al Mulley’s talk at TEDx Dartmouth

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 23, 2011 | 12 comments

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...

NYTimes: Smaller hospitals often perform double CTs unnecessarily

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 18, 2011 | 0 comments

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...

BMJ posts expert roundtable audio on Salzburg Statement and Shared Decision Making

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 6, 2011 | 0 comments

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...

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