Shared decision making: Does a physician's decision-making style affect patient participation in treatment choices for primary immunodeficiency?

ABSTRACT: Overall health care spending in the United States is equivalent to more than 15% of GDP, yet outcomes rank below the top 25 in most quality categories when compared with other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The majority of spending is consumed by small patient populations with chronic diseases. Experts believe increased patient-physician shared decision making (SDM) should result in better overall longitudinal care but understanding the physician's role in facilitating SDM is limited. Structural equation modelling was applied to results of a 2016 questionnaire-based survey of 330 US physicians who treat approximately 55% of primary immune deficiency requiring immune globulin therapy; it tested the relationship between slow/rational vs fast/intuitive

SUBMITTER: Lamb CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6900116 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature