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Shared decision-making in medicine (SDM) is a process in which both the patient and physician contribute to the medical decision-making process and agree on treatment decisions. [1] Health care providers explain treatments and alternatives to patients and help them choose the treatment option that best aligns with their preferences as well as ...
A medical doctor explaining an X-ray to a patient. Several factors help increase patient participation, including understandable and individual adapted information, education for the patient and healthcare provider, sufficient time for the interaction, processes that provide the opportunity for the patient to be involved in decision-making, a positive attitude from the healthcare provider ...
Decision aids are interventions or tools designed to facilitate shared decision making and patient participation in health care decisions.. Decision support interventions help people think about choices they face; they describe where and why choice exists; and they provide information about options, including, where reasonable, the option of taking no action. [1]
explaining results and planning: [1] [2] This aims to ensure a shared understanding, and allowing for shared decision-making. [1] closing a session: [1] [2] This may involve discussing further plans. [1] This is designed to give a clear structure to the interview, and to help to build the relationship between the clinician and the patient. [1]
Initiatives such as co-production or user controlled research in which decision-making and agenda setting power is shared with or held by patients are considered examples of lived experience leadership. [18] Academic journals continue to develop ways to ensure patient involvement is reported transparently and meaningfully. [19]
The term adherence is often used to imply a collaborative approach to decision-making and treatment between a patient and clinician. [14] The term concordance has been used in the United Kingdom to involve a patient in the treatment process to improve compliance, and refers to a 2003 NHS initiative.
Preoperative patient education helped patients with their decision-making process by informing them of factors related to pain, limb loss, and functional restriction faced after amputation. [ 15 ] In the case of arthritis, patient education was found to be administered through three methods, including individual face to face meetings with ...
The coalition government has proposed broadly to return to the 2010 strategy Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (July 2010); stating: "We will put patients at the heart of the NHS, through an information revolution and greater choice and control' with shared decision-making becoming the norm: "no decision about me without me' and ...