Hughes: Shared decision-making has the potential to influence many metrics. For example, when a person with diabetes creates and agrees to a nutrition plan or a physical activity plan, they are ...

At its best, medicine will be a process of shared decision making, and doctors need to be prepared.

Across 65 cardiovascular guidelines with nearly 7500 specific recommendations published 2012-2022, only 170 recommendations directly incorporated shared decision-making.

Shared decision-making enables doctors to help patients navigate health decisions while preserving patients’ autonomy.

Barnes: How does shared decision-making improve the standard of care in heart failure? Felker: That's a really important question because we talk about the standard of care, for example, in heart ...

Shared decision-making is too often an excuse for dubious care, leading this cardiologist to have a change of heart.

Abstract Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

But shared decision-making, which enables and encourages people to play a role in the medical decisions that affect their health, can help physicians assuage these concerns, Sheth said.

With those caveats in mind, I offer the following model for the practical implementation of shared governance, based on the shared decision-making model above: Step 1: Identify necessary committees ...