Many health care decisions depend not only upon medical facts, but also on value
judgments—patient goals and preferences. Until recent decades, patients relied on doctors …

Introduction: Shared decision making is a collaborative approach to care that seeks to
improve the quality of medical decisions by helping patients choose options concordant with …

Direct-to-consumer advertising is described as the promotion or marketing of a product
directly from the seller to the consumer. We examined whether websites on Google™ …

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an acquired autoimmune bleeding disorder which
presents with isolated thrombocytopenia and risk of hemorrhage. While most children with …

Elsewhere in JAMA Network Open, Wu and colleagues1 present a novel analysis of a
Taiwanese national database comparing the perioperative and long-term functional …

Introduction: Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative approach to care that
improves the quality of medical decisions by helping patients choose options concordant …

Even as life expectancies increase, increasing numbers of people are living with chronic
illness and pain than ever before. Long-term self-management of chronic conditions …

To the Editor: We read with interest Clements et al's publication titled “Health-related Quality
of Life After Robotic-assisted vs Open Radical Cystectomy: Analysis of a Randomized Trial.” …

Robot-assisted surgery refers to a surgeon controlling a robotic device that performs an
operation. This viewpoint explores the current state of robot-assisted surgery in Aotearoa …

Prostate cancer remains a significant global health concern, driving continuous
advancements in surgical techniques. Minimally invasive techniques such as laparoscopic …