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View all results of this resource type.What Will it Take to Avoid Avoidable Care? Nothing Less than a Culture Shift Say Conference Organizers
Last week the first major medical meeting devoted to the topic of avoidable care was held in Cambridge, MA. The two-day Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference was organized by the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the New America Foundation, and co-hosted by the Institute of Medicine. Attendees included experienced, practicing clinicians from a broad range of medical specialties, along with thought leaders in health policy. Continue reading
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View all results of this resource type.Aligning Ethics with Medical Decision-Making: The Quest for Informed Patient Choice
This largely theoretical article describes the balance between two medical decision making principles – beneficence and autonomy – and the growing shift towards a model of an autonomous, informed and participatory patient. The article proposes that shared decision making (SDM) strikes a balance between beneficence and autonomy and thus it should be adopted more widely. The authors review policy options for implanting SDM more widely through practice models, state policy incentives, and federal requirements. The article provides some detailed examples from health systems and states that have implemented SDM through the above models, and proposes a three-step process for implementing a nationwide practice of SDM. Continue reading
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View all results of this resource type.[The Dartmouth] HVHC Receives Grant for Better Patient Care
The grant provides funding to train and hire "family and patient activators" to equip patients with the tools they need to make decisions about their health care, Weeks said. The activators will be trained according to a curriculum developed at Dartmouth. The family and patient activators are complementary to the physician-patient dialogue, according to Benjamin Moulton, the senior legal advisor for the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation.
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[Politico] ACA Boosts 'Shared Decision-Making'
"And some of the momentum is coming from state legislators or health officials who want a shared decision-making component in some of the latest models for cutting waste and improving quality in health care spending, like 'medical homes.' Washington state began encouraging shared decision making in it's state's health care systems about five years ago; Massachusetts joined in last summer when it passed its sweeping health cost control law, according to Benjamin Moulton, the senior legal adviser to the Boston-based Informed Medical Decisions Foundation."Read the full-text article.
