Studies investigating preferences for shared decision making (SDM) have focused on associations with sociodemographic variables, with few investigations exploring patient factors. We aimed to investigate the relationship between patient activation and preferences for SDM in 6 common medical decisions among a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of American adults. Adults older than ...

In this work, we present Sparse Distributed Memory for Small Cues (SDMSCue), a new variant of Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM) that is capable of handling small cues. SDM is a content-addressable memory technique that relies on similar memory items tending to be clustered together in the same region or subspace of the semantic space. SDM has been used before as associative memory or control stru...

Episodic memory shows substantial declines with advancing age, but research on longitudinal trajectories of spoken discourse memory (SDM) in older adulthood is limited. Using parallel process latent growth curve models, we examined 10 years of longitudinal data from the no-contact control group (N = 698) of the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) randomised co...

BACKGROUND Clinicians, older adults and caregivers frequently meet to make decisions around treatment and lifestyle during an acute hospital admission. Patient age, psychological status and health locus of control (HLC) influence patient preference for consultation involvement and information but overall, a shared-decision-making (SDM) approach is favoured. However, it is not known whether thes...

BACKGROUND The mere availability of family planning (FP) services is not sufficient to improve reproductive health; services must also be of adequate quality. The introduction of new contraceptive methods is a means of improving quality of care. The Standard Days Method (SDM) is a new fertility-awareness-based contraceptive method that has been successfully added to reproductive health care ser...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Shared decision making (SDM) for prostate cancer screening (PCS) is recommended for physicians and patients due to the uncertainty regarding the risks and benefits of screening. METHODS We assessed primary care physicians' attitudes and specific factors that may influence the SDM process, including level of training and practice setting. Participants included academi...

Oversampled Sigma-Delta modulation (SDM) is becoming a standard method for implementing high-resolution A/D and D/A converters in silicon. Digital decimation lters play a fundamental role in Oversampled Sigma-Delta A/D decoders. In this paper, we rst show that Weighted Median Filters (WMF) can be used for SDM decimation lters and that these lters are readily implemented in the SDM binary domain...