Shared decision making
Menée à partir d'une enquête nationale auprès de 2 718 patients âgés de 40 ans ou plus, cette étude américaine analyse leurs perceptions vis-à-vis de la prise de décisions médicales en matière de tests, de traitements médicamenteux ou de procédures chirurgicales
The construct of shared decision making (SDM) is dealt with directly or indirectly in 3 articles in this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. One concerns the effect among dialysis patients of a lack of being properly informed.1 A second evaluates the potential costs of patients’ decisional preferences.2 The third measures a national rate of patient-centered medical decisions.3 See also the research letter by Krumholz et al.4 This is not coincidence. The frequency of SDM-related research, policy, and affirmation increases annually, and some say it is reaching a tipping point.