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View all results of this resource type.Colleagues at MGH Receive Grant to Foster Shared Decision Making Resident Training
The Picker Institute and Gold Foundation selected our colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as one of the 2012/2013 Challenge Grant recipients for their proposal entitled “Shared Decision Making in Medication Prescriptions: Improving Communication Skills and Professionalism for Internal Medicine Residents.” The overarching goal of the program will be to enhance the communication skills that residents need to effectively and efficiently implement shared decision making in all of their clinical interactions. Continue reading
Shared Decision Making Month Contributor Spotlight: Ishani Ganguli
Ishani Ganguli is a journalist and a second-year resident in internal medicine/primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital. As part of her residency, she practices at the Ambulatory Practice of the Future, an innovation lab for primary care. There, she is leading an effort to pilot a web-based point-of-care tool that engages various members of the health care team to help patients make better informed, personalized decisions about cancer screening and knee pain. 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.
Informed Medical Decisions Foundation Funded Research
View all results of this resource type.Developing Measures of Decision Quality
The field tests in the last year show that the items on the whole are performing as intended, and patients find the surveys acceptable and feasible. There is growing interest in the research community to use these instruments, and we have been exploring interest in clinical community to extend their use. Continue reading
