Accelerating Implementation of Shared Decision-Making in the Netherlands: An Exploratory Investigation

Shared decision-making (SDM) combines patient-centered communication skills with evidence-based medicine to achieve high-quality patient care [1]. It facilitates a process of collaboration and deliberation, based on “team talk,” “option talk,” and “decision talk” [2]. Professionals may use several steps and accompanying communication strategies to implement SDM [3]. While there is convincing evidence for the use of patient decision aids to support SDM [4], most of these aids have not subsequently be en implemented in the complexity of clinical practice.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - July 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Haske van Veenendaal, Trudy van der Weijden, Dirk T. Ubbink, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Linda A. van Mierlo, Carina G.J.M. Hilders Source Type: research