Women ’s Preferences For and Experiences With Prenatal Genetic Testing Decision Making: Sociodemographic Disparities in Preference-Concordant Decision Making

Shared decision making has been advocated as an ideal approach to clinical encounters in which multiple, reasonable courses of action are available and the 'best' choice depends, in part, on patient values and preferences [1 –3]. However, numerous studies have demonstrated that patients differ in their preferences for participation in a variety of clinical decisions [4,5]. Investigations into the extent to which there is concordance between patients’ preferred approach to decision making and what actually occurs in the clinical encounter are limited [6,7].

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - October 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Fabiola Molina, Christine Dehlendorf, Steven E. Gregorich, Miriam Kuppermann Source Type: research