Evidence-based Risk and Benefit Communication for Shared Decision Making

Shared decision making, decision aids, and risk communication.

The role of risk communication in shared decision making.

A stochastic multicriteria model for evidence-based decision making in drug benefit-risk analysis.

Drug benefit-risk (BR) analysis is based on firm clinical evidence regarding various safety and efficacy outcomes. In this paper, we propose a new and more formal approach for constructing a supporting multi-criteria model that fully takes into account the evidence on efficacy and adverse drug reactions. Our approach is based on the stochastic multi-criteria acceptability analysis methodology, ...

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...

Higher integrity health care: evidence-based shared decision making.