Educational Climate In Elective Adult Education: Shared Decision Making and Communication Patterns

Communication: From Paternalism to Shared Decision Making

At the same time, significant progress in cancer treatment was under way, and an early diagnosis began to provide more hope for the cancer patient. Public educational efforts began to focus on providing information to lay people about cancer. Experts in the field prepared pamphlets describing various cancers and their warning signs in order to help patients turn to physicians at appropriate tim...

Shared decision making, decision aids, and risk communication.

O4: Decision Making in Adult Epilepsy Surgery

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Assessing Practitioners’ and Patients’ Needs Regarding Shared Decision-Making and Decision Aids

       Background: As part of the process of developing a decision aid for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) according to the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, we were interested in the level of ‘decisional conflict’ of hand surgeons and patients with CTS. This study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no difference between surgeon and patient decisional conflict with respect to test and tr...

Elective surgical referral guidelines - background educational material or essential shared decision making tool? A survey of GPs' in England

BACKGROUND To investigate general practitioners' (GPs') attitudes to guidelines for elective surgical referral in England. To understand their use of guidelines, and attitudes to shared decision making in the referral decision. METHODS A questionnaire was developed which investigated attitudes to and use of guidelines. It was given to a stratified random sample 30% (n = 310) drawn from GP lis...