Shared decision making in the patient-physician relationship : challenges facing patients, physicians, and medical institutions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mazur, Dennis J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tampa, Fla. : American College of Physician Executives, [2001]
Subjects:	Physician-Patient Relations. Patient Participation. Decision Making. Patient Education as Topic. Informed Consent.

Table of Contents:

The patient-physician relationship : information + decision making
From consent to informed consent : judicial views and their critics
Ethicists' views on autonomy, information, shared understanding, and absence of coercion in informed consent
From informed consent to shared decision making : a critique of judicial views of informed consent
Information and decision making : information science perspectives
Information and decision making : decision scientific perspectives
Information and decision making : cognitive scientific perspectives
Information and decision making : scientific evidence, the information sciences, and decision support
What goes on in patient/physician discussions? What does the research show?
Where do we go from here? Participatory decision-making style and informed decision making
Shared decision making and the realities of time-limited conversations in the patient-physician relationship
Introduction to research on shared decision making : understanding its range of content and complexity
Research on shared decision making : starting with very basic research ideas
Research on numeracy and shared decision making and decision support for patients
Views of shared decision making
What do patients report they want to know? Assumptions versus research on what patients report they want
Shared decision making in the absence of high-quality scientific evidence : the "close-call" or "toss-up" decision
Understanding medical information and a proposed category framework of information for decision support of patients' decisions
What is "shared" in shared decision making in clinical medicine? The polyadic patient-physician relationship
What levels of understanding do patients want in shared decision making?
Challenges regarding information and its structure in decision support for patients as decision makers/trackers
Decision-support systems for patients
Alternative methods for decision making : systematic versus intuitive
Patient informational circumstances in clinical research
The institutional management of information
The final challenge : evaluating success of decision-support systems in assisting patients in construction of their preferences
Conclusion : the push and pull of information in the patient-physician relationship.