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Correspondence to: Dr Mary Bond PenTAG, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Veysey Building, Salmon Pool Lane, Exeter EX2 4SG, Devon, UK; mary.bond{at}pms.ac.uk The negative psychological ...
The Choosing Wisely initiative promotes conversations between patients and clinicians, to choose care that is supported by evidence, and truly necessary. The consultation is an efficient diagnostic ...
Correspondence to Dr Paul Fontelo, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA; fontelo{at}nlm.nih.gov In 1998, the ‘Evidence Cart’ was introduced to provide decision ...
Qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based health care (EBHC), contributing to policy on patient safety and quality of care, supporting understanding of the impact of chronic ...
Correspondence to Professor Carl Heneghan, Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK; carl.heneghan{at}phc.ox.ac.uk If you wish to reuse ...
†Composite outcome = all cardiovascular events and all cause mortality. Abbreviations defined in glossary; NNT and CI provided by author. ‡Number needed to treat with an ACE inhibitor based regimen ...
Objectives Drug nomenclature is an international system that helps in identifying the drugs. Trade names often reflect a characteristic of the drug or a relationship that will be of useful value for ...
Correspondence to Professor John Brodersen, Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen 1014, ...
2 Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance Malden, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr Allen F Shaughnessy, Department of Family Medicine, Tufts University Family ...
Objectives To describe the range of collaborative approaches to shared decision-making (SDM) observed in clinical encounters of patients with diabetes and their clinicians. Design A secondary analysis ...
Shared decision-making (SDM) is the process by which patients and clinicians work together to cocreate care plans that respond to the patient’s problematic situation.1 2 In daily life, a familiar ...
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