Background: PatientsLikeMe is an online quantitative personal research platform for patients
with life-changing illnesses to share their experience using patient-reported outcomes, find …

Background—Frailty is an emerging concept in medicine yet to be explored as a risk factor
in cardiac surgery. Where elderly patients are increasingly referred for cardiac surgery, the …

The theory behind informed consent presumes that patients will use the information
disclosed in autonomous and rational ways. Unfortunately, this presumption is not always …

Importance Recent discussion has focused on questions related to the repeal and
replacement of portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, issues central to the …

For 45 years, my uncle was a general practitioner. Except for rare few-day vacations, he was
on call 24/7/365 during 45 years. For most of his patients most of the time, care coordination …

Empathy should characterize all health care professions. Despite advancement in medical
technology, the healing relationship between physicians and patients remains essential to …

Objective Measuring the process of shared decision making is a challenge, which
constitutes a barrier to research and implementation. The aim of the study was to report the …

Context Despite the best efforts of health care practitioners, medical errors are inevitable.
Disclosure of errors to patients is desired by patients and recommended by ethicists and …

Objective To investigate physicians' preferred and usual roles in decision making in medical
consultations, and their perception of shared decision making (SDM). Methods A cross …

Objective To inventory instruments assessing the process of shared decision making and
appraise their measurement quality, taking into account the methodological quality of their …