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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Navigating uncharted waters: a guide to shared decision making



Patient-Voice 

'Nothing about us without ushas been the rallying call for cancer advocacy that has helped to expose the lack of patient voices in decisions about care and treatments. Since the 1990s, enlightened doctors and healthcare organisations, aware of the hierarchical nature of the physician–patient relationship, have joined the movement to better inform people so they can be part of decisions, and the result is that in many countries the picture has radically improved. There is no doubt that attitudes about truth telling and provision of information – as witnessed by the proliferation of patient decision aids and websites – have changed for the better.

In turn, this has led to the rise of shared decision making (SDM) – which is defined, briefly, as involving a patient in a decision to the extent they would wish by providing and discussing information about options. It has become a topic that has attained specialist status, at least when judged by the number of research groups, conferences and organisations reporting and adopting shared decision making.

In 2010 the Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making was agreed at a global seminar (http://tiny.cc/SDM), which issued a call to clinicians, policymakers and patients to work together
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