Background. Despite widespread advocacy for shared decision making (SDM), the empirical
evidence regarding its effectiveness to improve patient outcomes has not been …

Shared decision-making is increasingly embraced in health care and recommended in
cardiovascular guidelines. Patient involvement in health care decisions, patient-clinician …

Shared decision-making is increasingly advocated as an ideal model of treatment decision-
making in the medical encounter. To date, the concept has been rather poorly and loosely …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

The goal of patient-centered communication (PCC) is to help practitioners provide care that
is concordant with the patient's values, needs and preferences, and that allows patients to …

Background Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of healthcare
providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and …

The quality of physician–patient interaction is increasingly being recognized as an essential
component of effective treatment. The present article reports on the development and …

Overview: Risky behaviors are a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, yet
behavioral counseling interventions to address them are underutilized in healthcare …

Objective Measuring the process of shared decision making is a challenge, which
constitutes a barrier to research and implementation. The aim of the study was to report the …

A diagnosis of cancer typically results in patients experiencing uncertainty about and loss of
control over their situation, which in turn has a negative influence on their health outcomes …