shared decision making

Shared Decision Making in Imaging: How Should Patients and Physicians Discuss the Costs of Care?

By Sarah Krüg | April 7, 2017

The Society for Participatory Medicine is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the American College of Radiology to present an important topic in healthcare at the next Learning Exchange, which will take place on April 19, 2017, 2-3PM EST. Join us as...

Shared Decision Making in the News

By Jessie Gruman | June 28, 2011

Media coverage of the challenges we face in making good treatment decisions often focuses on and sensationalizes medical errors, catastrophes and risks. So it was great to see this impressive TV news clip circulated by Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org in his...

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

By e-Patient Dave | April 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...

The Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making

By e-Patient Dave | March 22, 2011

This Thursday at the headquarters of the British Medical Journal in London, an important announcement will be made about patients’ rights to be actively involved in decisions about their treatment. Below is the press release about it. The subject is shared...

Practice variation and shared decision making on CBS Evening News

By e-Patient Dave | February 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...

Shared Decision Making: Informed Consent v. Informed Choice

By Gilles Frydman | November 30, 2009

This guest post, presenting the view point of Howard Luks ( @hjluks on Twitter). Howard is an orthopedic surgeon. He serves as the Chief of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy and Knee Replacement at Westchester Medical Center, in Westchester County, NY. Asked about...

Introducing the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support-Learning Network

By Danny van Leeuwen | March 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...

On Making Patient Reviews of Physicians More Useful

By David Harlow | June 27, 2015

I recently hosted a Google Hangout on Air entitled Patient Reviews of Physicians: The Wisdom of the Crowd? (presented by The Harlow Group LLC in association with The Society for Participatory Medicine). I spoke with Niam Yaraghi (Center for Technology Innovation, The...

Zack Berger from #MedX on uncertainty and decision aids

By e-Patient Dave | September 7, 2014

Regular readers may recall SPM member Zack Berger MD PhD’s July post here The pledge of the patient-centered physician. Zack is one of the many SPM members attending the Stanford Medicine X conference this weekend and sends this Saturday night report,...

Researcher seeks patient input: what should a stent decision aid include?

By Marilyn Mann | July 28, 2014

Preface by e-Patient Dave: We have often written here (see posts) about Shared Decision Making, in which patients are engaged in choosing among treatment options. A key method is to give patients a “decision aid” (DA) – a document or video that...