A skills network approach to physicians' competence in shared decision making.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measurement of physicians' competence in shared decision making (SDM) remains challenging with frequent disagreement between assessment methods.

Objective

To conceptualize and measure physicians' SDM competence as an organized network of behavioural skills and to determine whether processing patient-reported data according to this model can be used to predict observer-rated competence.

Design

Secondary analysis of an observational study.

Setting and participants

Primary and specialty outpatient care physicians and consecutively recruited adult patients with a chronic condition who faced a treatment decision with multiple acceptable choices.

Measures

Network parameters constructed from patients' assessment of physicians' SDM skills as measured

SUBMITTER: Kriston L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7752189 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature