When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

JAMA, vol. 323, pp. 1345

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of shared decision-making (SDM) for providing care that takes into account the experience, expertise, and specific situations of patients; and stresses the importance of developing clinical practice guidelines that consider known barriers and costs of SDM implementation and when SDM is most relevant and useful.

Authors 3

1. Doreen M. Rabi

   University of Calgary · O'Brien Institute for Public Health

   Affiliation as printed

   O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2. Marleen Kunneman Aachen Department of Biomedical Data Sciences

   Leiden University · Mayo Clinic · Leiden University Medical Center

   Affiliation as printed

   Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

   Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

3. Víctor M. Montori

   Mayo Clinic

   Affiliation as printed

   Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota