A Qualitative Analysis of Attending Physicians' Use of Shared Decision-Making: Implications for Resident Education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians need to rapidly and effectively facilitate patient-centered, shared decision-making (SDM) conversations, but little is known about how residents or attending physicians acquire this skill.

Objective

We explored emergency medicine (EM) attending physicians' use of SDM in the context of their experience as former residents and current educators and assessed the implications of these findings on learning opportunities for residents.

Methods

We used semistructured interviews with a purposeful sample of EM physicians. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and 3 research team members performed iterative, open coding of transcripts, building a provisional codebook as work progressed. We analyzed the data with a focus on participants' acquisition and use

SUBMITTER: Schoenfeld EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5821016 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature