Delivering high-quality care starts with understanding what matters most to each patient. Clinicians can’t choose treatments that match patients’ priorities and values until they engage with them. The ...

Many strengths have a downside. Or, conversely, weaknesses may prove to have an upside. A strength/weakness I have been thinking about this week is my sense of urgency/impatience in fulfilling my ...

Patients are often faced with difficult healthcare decisions, particularly when choosing treatment options for a medical condition. Historically, physicians made treatment decisions for patients.

Cognitive reflection and decision-making competence refer to the capacity to override intuitive, automatic responses in favour of more analytical and deliberate thought processes. This field ...

Shared decision-making in healthcare, in which patients and providers share information and jointly make decisions based on the individual needs of the patient, requires a significant investment, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. Shared decision-making between doctors and patients may be ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that its Innovation Center is launching a pair of 5-year demonstration projects aimed at evaluating different approaches to shared ...

Credit: Getty Images Improving the quality of patients’ health care decisions is feasible with the right educational tools. Something about focusing on hitting a bouncy yellow tennis ball just right ...

Easing some concerns about access, a research letter published online this week in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that a US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement for shared decision ...

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