Salzburg Global Seminar - selected articles

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Activating Seniors to Improve Chronic Disease Care: Results from a Pilot Intervention Study (Dominick L. Frosch, David Rincon, Socorro Ochoa, and Carol M. Mangione)

Aligning Ethics with Medical Decision-Making: The Quest for Informed Patient Choice (Benjamin Moulton and Jaime S. King)

Communicating Evidence for Participatory Decision Making (Ronald M. Epstein, Brian S. Alper and Timothy E. Quill)

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics (Gerd Gigerenzer, Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Elke Kurz-Milcke, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin)

How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories (Gary Schwitzer)

Implementing shared decision making in the NHS. (Glyn Elwyn and colleagues)

Improving productivity in the NHS. Reducing practice variation through better decision making is key (Albert Mulley) - [Article No. 5, if you scroll down the document]

Launching the Century of the Patient (Gerd Gigerenzer and J. A. Muir Gray)

Policy Support For Patient- Centered Care: The Need For Measurable Improvements In Decision Quality (Karen R. Sepucha, Floyd J. Fowler Jr., and Albert G. Mulley Jr.)

Reactions of Potential Jurors to a Hypothetical Malpractice Suit Alleging Failure to Perform a Prostate-Specific Antigen Test (Michael J. Barry, Pamela H. Wescott, Ellen J. Reifler, Yuchaio Chang, and Benjamin W. Moulton)

Rethinking Informed Consent: The Case for Shared Medical Decision- Making (Jaime Staples King and Benjamin Moulton)

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SHARED DECISION-MAKING IN THE MEDICAL ENCOUNTER: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? (OR IT TAKES AT LEAST TWO TO TANGO) by CATHY CHARLES, AMIRAM GAFNV and TIM WHELAN

The Future of Health Journalism (Gary Schwitzer)

The need to confront variation in practice (Albert G Mulley)

Clinicians' concerns about decision support interventions for patients facing breast cancer surgery options: understanding the challenge of implementing shared decision-making (Caldon LJ, Collins KA, Reed MW, Sivell S, Austoker J, Clements AM, Patnick J, Elwyn G; BresDex Group)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21029281)

HEALTH CROSSROADS / HEALTH DIALOG: Prostate Cancer Screening
(https://www.healthcrossroads.com/example/crossroad.aspx?contentGUID=fc326615-5b29-47f1-87c3-9a3e2d946919)

HEALTH DIALOG: Getting the Healthcare That’s Right for You
(http://www.healthdialog.com/Main/Personalhealthcoaching/Shared-Decision-Making/Getting-The-Care-Thats-Right-For-You)

I Believe, Therefore I Do. (Frosch DL, Elwyn G.)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21061083)

Implementing shared decision making in the NHS (Elwyn G, Laitner S, Coulter A, Walker E, Watson P, Thomson R.)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20947577)

SESSION BLOG: e-Patient Dave: A Voice of Patient Engagement (Dave deBronkart)
(http://epatientdave.com/2010/11/29/a-radical-view-of-complianceadherence-from-1977/)

Session Position Paper - with thanks to the British Medical Journal: Do patients want a choice and does it work? by co-chair of the session, Angela Coulter, Director of Global Initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
(http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4989.full.html?ijkey=icrFYTXpKpvq5Bc&keytype=ref&siteid=bmjjournals)

TED: Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing
(http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing.html)

The New Yorker: The Cost Conundrum. What a Texas town can teach us about health care (Atul Gawande June 1, 2009)
(http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all)

Tracking Medicine (John Wennberg)
(http://www.trackingmedicine.com/)