Emergency Physician Radiation Risk Communication: A Role for Shared Decision-making

The role of risk communication in shared decision making.

Shared decision making, decision aids, and risk communication.

Role Taking Under Financial Risk Decision Making

This paper explores people’s behavior when they are facing financial risks. Through the setting of an economics experiment, people’s willingness to bear financial risks and their tendency to impose risks on others are investigated. The experiment result shows that most people are risk-neutral or risk-averse when making decision under financial environment, and their tendency to impose risks on ...

Communication: From Paternalism to Shared Decision Making

At the same time, significant progress in cancer treatment was under way, and an early diagnosis began to provide more hope for the cancer patient. Public educational efforts began to focus on providing information to lay people about cancer. Experts in the field prepared pamphlets describing various cancers and their warning signs in order to help patients turn to physicians at appropriate tim...

Patient and physician views of shared decision making in cancer

CONTEXT Engaging patients in shared decision making involves patient knowledge of treatment options and physician elicitation of patient preferences. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to explore patient and physician perceptions of shared decision making in clinical encounters for cancer care. DESIGN Patients and physicians were asked open-ended questions regarding their perceptions of shared decision ...