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In this article, Jane Lewis summarises findings from a systematic review of studies from around the world published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The review found that patients have a tendency to overestimate the benefits of medical tests, treatments and screens, while underestimating their potential harms.
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The aim of the AQuA Shared Decision Making and Self-Management Support Collaborative programme was to achieve a 10% improvement in the number of patients actively engaged in their care and treatment. This report describes the work undertaken by 22 teams taking part in the programme and their learning.
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This article highlights that whilst large scale implementation programmes in the UK have delivered valuable lessons on how best to embed shared decision making, adoption of shared decision making into routine clinical settings has been slow.
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This report is a distillation of learning and discussions from a summit hosted by the Health Foundation which identified that, as champion of patient and carer involvement, the NHS Commissioning Board has a critical role to play in making shared decision making the norm.
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In this article, the President of the American Psychiatric Association sets out a changing model of care, in which there is greater emphasis on involving people with mental health problems in determining the goals of treatment that are meaningful to them and the nature of their care. The article argues that this requires greater shared decision making between the clinician and the patient, and support such as patient education to enable this to happen.
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This blog describes how a doctor helped a family to move from asking the doctor to make a decision, to thinking through what their mother's wishes might be for her end of life care, and how this has influenced the doctor's subsequent practice.
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The article discusses findings from recent research that show that people consider risk information easier to understand and recall when it’s presented using a visual aid. Furthermore, it typically takes people less time to understand information when it’s presented visually than when it’s presented numerically.
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This paper argues that supporting the development and routine use of measures of decision quality will provide opportunities to measurably improvethe quality of decisions, thereby leading to more patient-centered and efficient health care.
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In this article, Dr Steven Laitner, National Clinical Lead for the Right Care Shared Decision Making Programme, briefly explores the benefits of shared decision making and highlights work by the Right Care shared decision making programme to develop patient decision aids.
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In this blog, Angela Coulter highlights that the Government’s consultation No decision about me without me: further consultation on proposals to secure shared decision making confuses provider choice with shared decision making and argues that the latter is equally important but overlooked in the consultation.