European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) is the official guidance-providing body of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association. This paper introduces the mission statement of ERBP, and provides insight on what this implies for guideline production. We will discuss that improving patient outcome does not only require attention to high-quality evidence, but also unders...

tered the term, “shared decision making” (SDM) for the first time. It was in a paper that stated that a doctor needs to use SDM before instituting an antipsychotic drug with a “black box warning” to treat psychotic symptoms in people with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). DLB is a variant of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in which dementia precedes motor signs, whereas PD with dementia starts with mot...

The strongest argument for shared decision making is that patients have a fundamental right to understand all the reasonable medical options and the arguments for and against each option. Simply put, informing and involving patients in medical decisions is the right thing to do. The majority of people want to make decisions about their health care -rather than be told what to do or make decisio...

Author’s Address: Juliette Harik, PhD is affiliated with the National Center for PTSD, Executive Division, VA Medical Center (116D) 215 North Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont 05009. Email Address: [email protected]. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be treated effectively with a variety of interventions. Several different treatment approaches have received the strongest pos...