All Articles on Shared Decision Making
Co-designing health care with patients: A how-to guideDr. Clarissa Hsu writes about a quality improvement project that equalized power between patients and staff.
What motivates Dr. David Arterburn to study obesity?Kaiser Permanente Share profiles KPWHRI senior investigator, who also researches shared decision making
Shared decision-making collaborators win 2015 Birnbaum AwardGHRI honors eight delivery-system partners for strengthening the patient’s role in treatment choices.
Training physicians to diagnose patient preferencesShared decision making aligns health care decisions with patient goals. Dr. David Arterburn wants to improve the approach through physician training.
- Introducing decision aids may lower surgery for arthritis
After Group Health Cooperative introduced video-based “decision aids” for people with knee and hip arthritis, rates of knee and hip replacement surgeries dropped sharply: by 38 and 26 percent, respectively, over six months. The cost of caring for those patients also declined: by 12 percent to 21 percent, according to an article in the September Health Affairs.
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