Shared decision making is a collaborative process that involves a person and their healthcare professional working together to reach a joint decision about care. It could be care the person needs ...

Shared decision making (SDM)—when clinicians and patients make medical decisions together—is moving swiftly from an ethical ideal toward widespread clinical implementation affecting millions of ...

Credit: Getty Images Respect for the autonomy of patients does not mean leaving them to navigate health care decisions on their own. Shared decision-making enables physicians to serve as guides to ...

Credit: Getty Images Improving the quality of patients’ health care decisions is feasible with the right educational tools. Something about focusing on hitting a bouncy yellow tennis ball just right ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. G. Michael Felker, MD: Hi. I'm Michael Felker from Duke University, and I'm pleased to be joined today with my colleague, Stephanie Barnes, for this Care ...

Over 400,000 people are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) globally each year, i and as innovations in treatment have resulted in helping people live longer and better than ever before, their ...

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 ...

We agree with Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and coauthors (Nov 2019) that policy initiatives on shared decision making (SDM) place undue emphasis on Eurocentric individualistic choices without adequately ...

My views on shared decision-making have changed. In years past, I embraced, somewhat religiously, the idea that nearly all medical decisions ought to be shared. Who could argue against giving patients ...