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The Potential of Shared Decision Making to Reduce Health Disparities

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

This article explores evidence that shared decision making can help reduce health disparities by improving patient activation and health outcomes, even for patients with lower health literacy. The authors suggest this is imperative since previous research shows that despite lower knowledge scores, patients with less education and income felt extremely well informed with respect to medication and screening decisions. Continue reading →