Posts concerning or making reference to patient decision aids, documents or other materials designed to help patients be involved in making decisions, or indeed to make decisions for themselves.
Shared decision making (SDM) is a bit of a hot topic in medical circles. Well, it should be, but it mostly seems to be a hot topic among people who are researching clinician-patient interactions and people who have ‘caught the bug’ for it and are trying to drive change. In this post I explore what it means and why it is good.