Shared decision-making for children with medical complexity in community health services: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with medical complexity is an increasing population whose parents and healthcare providers face multiple decisions. Shared decision-making is a process where patients, their families and healthcare providers collaborate to make decisions based on clinical evidence and informed preferences of the family. Shared decision-making has benefits for the child, family and healthcare providers, including improved parental understanding of the child's difficulties, increased participation, improved coping skills and more efficient healthcare use. It is, however, poorly implemented.

Aims and methods

A scoping review was conducted to explore shared decision-making for children with medical complexity in community health services, including how shared decision-making

SUBMITTER: Jacobs S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083859 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature