Shared Decision Making About Starting Anti-TNFs: A Pediatric Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Shared decision making (SDM) is central to patient-centered medicine and has the potential to improve outcomes for pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. We surveyed specialists about their use of SDM in the decision to start a tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor in pediatric patients. Results were compared between those who reported using SDM and those who did not. Of 209 respondents, 157 (75%) reported using SDM. Physician/practice characteristics were similar between users and nonusers. There were no statistically significant differences between groups in the components deemed important to the decision-making process nor the number of barriers or facilitators to SDM. Exploratory analyses suggested that physicians using SDM were more accepting of adolescent involvement in the

SUBMITTER: Michel HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature