Posts concerning Shared Decision Making, a paradigm for patient–clinician interactions and decision-making.
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.