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Improving the Quality of Health Care Globally by Advancing Shared Decision Making 19 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Our interest in shared decision making began with a question: Why do rates of surgical procedures for prostate disease vary so much from one geographic location to another? We discovered one main reas...
Voices of Shared Decision Making with David Arterburn 1 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Health care leaders have to clearly see the value proposition of shared decision making, which primarily is insuring that well-informed patients are making decisions that are clearly aligned with thei...
The President’s Corner: July 2013 1 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
In May we convened a meeting of patient advocates, payors, providers, researchers and policy makers through the support of The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This forum provided an opportunity to ...
Announcing The Aligning Incentives Statement: A Call to Action for Sustainable Models of Shared Decision Making 24 Jul 2013 | 11:54 pm
“In health care systems, too often the incentives are more aligned to keep patients in the dark and not fully involve them in their care decisions,” says Michael J. Barry, president of the Informed Me...
Voices of Shared Decision Making with Leana Wen 16 Jul 2013 | 07:45 pm
Medicine has become increasingly disconnected. Patients and doctors are both well-intended, but they are doing different things with different goals and different means. If I could do one thing to cha...
Voices of Shared Decision Making with Dominick Frosch 8 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm
Many physicians think they’re already doing shared decision making. But when they describe what they mean by that it’s not really what we envision when we talk about patients and providers being truly...
What Does Shared Decision Making Mean to You? 17 Jun 2013 | 11:53 pm
At the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation we find that the term “shared decision making” means something different to each member of our team. We thought it would be fun to share these varied meani...
Seventh International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) Conference to Bring Shared Decision Making to Global Stage 13 Jun 2013 | 10:10 pm
The central theme of this meeting “Globalizing SDM: Pacientes @ the centre of healthcare” has two implications. First, it suggests thinking about shared decision making more broadly, as an integral co...
Misleading Headline Implies Shared Decision Making Leads to Higher Costs, Longer Hospital Stays, but Evidence is Lacking 3 Jun 2013 | 06:20 pm
Total costs for a population are driven much more by hospitalization rates than by length of stay or in-hospital costs. Involving informed patients in their own preference sensitive health care decisi...
Voices of Shared Decision Making with Maureen Corry 22 May 2013 | 11:15 pm
Transforming care so that shared decision making is standard practice must be a multi-stakeholder effort, with women, clinicians, hospital administrators, payers and policy makers doing their part. Ch...
