Power to the People: How Shared Decision Making Empowers Patients AND Enhances Doctor/Patient Relationships
Health Dialog
MARCH 27, 2016
What Is Shared Decision Making and Why Is It Important? Patients often don’t know, well – what they don’t know. When asked about nine major medical decisions , patients on average knew less than one-half of the important information. Why is this significant? One-third of healthcare decisions have two or more treatment options where there is no ‘right’ course of action except for that of the patient’s.
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