Shared Decision-making in Different Types of Decisions in Medical Specialist Consultations.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

Research on shared decision-making (SDM) has mainly focused on decisions about treatment (e.g., medication or surgical procedures). Little is known about the decision-making process for the numerous other decisions in consultations.

Objectives

We assessed to what extent patients are actively involved in different decision types in medical specialist consultations and to what extent this was affected by medical specialist, patient, and consultation characteristics.

Design

Analysis of video-recorded encounters between medical specialists and patients at a large teaching hospital in the Netherlands.

Participants

Forty-one medical specialists (28 male) from 18 specialties, and 781 patients.

Main measure

Two independent raters classified decisions

SUBMITTER: Driever EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9485336 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature