The principles of shared decision making are well documented but there is a lack of
guidance about how to accomplish the approach in routine clinical practice. Our aim here is …

For many patients, the time spent meeting with their physician—the clinical encounter—is
the most opportune moment for them to become engaged in their own health through the …

Since the President's Commission first coined the term ''shared decision making''over 30
years ago, it has been seen as an elusive ethical ideal in clinical practice. 1 Clinicians have …

Objective Shared decision-making (SDM) is advocated as the model for decision-making in
preference-sensitive decisions. In this paper we sketch the history of the concept of SDM …

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 …

Objective To provide a cogent summation of the evidence base of the key barriers and
facilitators to implementing shared decision making (SDM). Methods An umbrella review of …

Shared decision-making is increasingly advocated as an ideal model of treatment decision-
making in the medical encounter. To date, the concept has been rather poorly and loosely …

Background: Shared decision making is the process in which a healthcare choice is made
jointly by the health professional and the patient. Little is known about what patients view as …

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Background Shared decision making has practical implications for everyday health care.
However, it stems from largely theoretical frameworks and is not widely implemented in …