A Patient-Centered Decision-Support Tool Informed by History of Interpersonal Violence

Contraceptive Patterns Among Women With a History of Interpersonal Violence

Paper Presentation Objective I ntimate partner violence is a significant public health issue, with approximately 25% of women reporting lifetime violence. Intimate partner violence has been associated with unintended pregnancy, possibly due to partner coercion or interference with contraceptive. The specific aim of this study was to describe the association between intimate partner violence and...

Patient-Centered Clinical Trials Decision Support using Linked Open Data

Patients often want to participate in relevant clinical trials for new or more effective alternative treatments. The clinical search system made available by the NIH is a step forward to support the patient’s decision making, but, it is difficult to use and requires the patient to sift through lengthy text descriptions for relevant information. In addition, patients deciding whether to pursue a...

Patient-centered informed consent in surgical practice.

OBJECTIVES To review the medical, ethical, and legal basis of the doctrine of informed consent for surgery and its complications, particularly for an incapacitated patient who requires a surrogate decision maker; to discuss the elasticity of the consent doctrine, whether surgical consent encompasses consent for surgical complications, and emphasize the importance of communication and shared dec...

The Hospital Patient Flow Model: A Simulation Decision Support Tool

Hospital overcrowding is a serious condition that threatens patient quality and a health system’s bottom line. Discrete-event simulation (DES), due to its ability to accurately predict outcomes in complex systems in both manufacturing and service industry design and improvement, is a well-matched choice for studying organizations with elevated variation. The objective of this study was to, thro...

Informed and shared decision-making: the crux of patient-centered care.