Across 65 cardiovascular guidelines with nearly 7500 specific recommendations published 2012-2022, only 170 recommendations directly incorporated shared decision-making.

At its best, medicine will be a process of shared decision making, and doctors need to be prepared.

Shared decision-making enables doctors to help patients navigate health decisions while preserving patients’ autonomy.

Barnes: How does shared decision-making improve the standard of care in heart failure? Felker: That's a really important question because we talk about the standard of care, for example, in heart ...

Read more about shared decision-making and informed choice, including how to assess and improve the quality of both, as well as what tools are available to make adoption and assessment of them easier.

Shared decision-making is too often an excuse for dubious care, leading this cardiologist to have a change of heart.

Abstract Shared decision making (SDM) is a method of care that is suitable for the care of patients with cancer. It involves a collaborative conversation seeking to respond sensibly to the problematic ...

An expert describes the patient advocate’s role in shared decision-making with a patient for novel therapeutic options.

But shared decision-making, which enables and encourages people to play a role in the medical decisions that affect their health, can help physicians assuage these concerns, Sheth said.

Bhavika Gandhi, MD, understands the difficulty patients with advanced chronic kidney disease may face when it is time to make a decision about going on dialysis.