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MaineHealth Hosts its First Conference Dedicated to Shared Decision Making
Last week, MaineHealth, an Informed Medical Decisions Foundation demonstration site, held its first conference dedicated to shared decision making (SDM). The conference, entitled “Shared Decision Making: The Patient Voice in Health Care,” featured presentations from national and local experts on SDM, and focused on bringing the patient perspective into the health care delivery system. Continue reading
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View all results of this resource type.[H&HN] Shared Decision-Making: Giving the Patient a Say. No, Really.
"The SDM concept dates to 1989, when two Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center physicians -- John Wennberg, M.D., and Albert Mulley Jr., M.D. -- started the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation. The next year, the foundation published its first decision aid -- a video to help patients understand the pros and cons of prostate cancer treatments. Since then, the foundation and others have produced hundreds of decision aids and SDM has gained traction steadily, mostly in primary care practices. For the last few years, the foundation has supported SDM demonstrations at Massachusetts General Hospital, Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network and other sites around the country."Read the full-text article.
