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Shared Decision Making Month Comes to a Close: A Personal Thank You to All Those Who Participated
I’d like to start by thanking everyone who has contributed to Shared Decision Making (SDM) Month. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support of this initiative. During the month of March we have heard from roughly 50 contributors representing a variety of perspectives on how fostering a health care system where shared decision making is the norm, is critical. We have also heard time and again that shared decision making is essential to providing patients with the high-quality care that patients deserve. However, contributors have also shown that the complex and fragmented nature of health care systems can make it difficult to take shared decision making theory and turn it into meaningful and sustainable everyday practice. Continue reading
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View all results of this resource type.[Modern Healthcare] Obstacles Ahead: Shared Decisionmaking Faces Roadblocks, Despite Push, Incentives
"Dr. Richard Wexler, chief medical officer of the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, Boston, contends that financial incentives will probably need to be much more explicitly tied to shared decisionmaking [sic], however, in order to effect real change. 'It's very hard to get shelf space for this because physicians have so many competing opportunities to do good things related to improvement,' Wexler said. 'Unless we realign incentives to highlight shared decisionmaking [sic] and attach some real financial importance to it, I think we'll have trouble competing with the other things that are rewarded in our system.'"Read the full-text article.
