by Sarah Krüg | Apr 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...
by Jessie Gruman | Jun 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...
by e-Patient Dave | 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 e-Patient Dave | Mar 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...
by e-Patient Dave | 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...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 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...
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 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 David Harlow | Jun 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...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 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,...
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