Search Tag: shared decision making

Executive Health Management

3-top-tips-for-execs-from-key-opinion-leaders

2017 14 Mar

1.       Encourage Shared Decision-Making Shared decision-making between members of an emergency department team, including input from the patient, is key to delivering an accurate diagnosis as well as high quality treatment and care. “When teams share mental models of a situation and communicate effectively, they...Read more

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Shared-decision-making-in-germany-patient-and-physician-perspectives

2015 26 Oct

Shared decision making is now anchored in the Law on Patient Rights and the Professional Code for Physicians in Germany. Under this new model, both the doctor and patient will decide which treatment to perform. Both parties will exchange information about the patient's disease and treatment options and will jointly choose one treatment.  Two original...Read more

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Video-about-end-of-life-procedures-informs-decisions-of-terminally-ill-patients

2015 20 Feb

A video which describes assistive and resuscitation procedures, such as CPR and intubation, helps seriously ill older patients to decide whether they want such interventions performed by their physicians if they experience a life-threatening event such as cardiac arrest. The decision-support tool, developed by the Video Images of Disease for Ethical...Read more

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Most-cancer-patients-prefer-shared-decision-making

2015 16 Feb

Patient perceptions of care quality are increasingly considered in healthcare performance metrics. The Institute of Medicine has recommended that physicians accommodate patient preferences for decision making, which may be shared to different degrees between patients and physicians during treatment. A new study links physician-controlled decisions...Read more