Shared decision making (SDM) in mental health care involves clinicians and patients working together to make decisions. The key elements of SDM have been identified, decision support tools have been developed, and SDM has been recommended in mental health at policy level. Yet implementation remains limited. Two justifications are typically advanced in support of SDM. The clinical justification ...

BACKGROUND Shared Decision Making (SDM) is increasingly advocated as a model for medical decision making. However, there is still low use of SDM in clinical practice. High impact factor journals might represent an efficient way for its dissemination. We aimed to identify and characterize publication trends of SDM in 15 high impact medical journals. METHODS We selected the 15 general and inter...

The field of sequential decision making (SDM) captures a range of mathematical frameworks geared towards the synthesis of goal-directed behaviors for autonomous systems. Abstract benchmark problems such as the blocks-world do-benchmark problems such as the blocks-world domain have facilitated immense progress in solution algorithms for SDM. there is some evidence that a direct application of SD...

The purpose of this analysis was to assess the impact of perceived shared decision-making (SDM) on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use and disclosure in a sample of urban, underserved minority patients (n = 109) with rheumatic diseases. Nearly three quarters of the patients (71.6%) reported CAM use. Of these, 59% disclosed CAM use to their provider. Logistic regression models were ...

 The BIGSS lab is developing a minimally-invasive surgical workstation to treat the osteolytic lesions using using a snake like dexterous manipulator (SDM).  The SDM will be positioned in the workspace by a robotic arm.  The focus of this project is integrating the SDM with the robotic armwhich is a 6 DOF Universal Robot (UR5) and position control of the tip of the SDM inside the lesion area.

With an increasingly complex array of interventions facing healthcare professionals and patients, coupled with a potentially diverse number of professionals operating within the primary care team, the adoption of shared decision making (SDM) - with or without patients' decision aids - in an interprofessional manner is essential to ensure the highest quality of care for patients. In this article...

BACKGROUND To measure and compare the extent to which shared a decision making (SDM) process is implemented both in psychiatric outpatient clinical encounters and in the primary care setting from the patient's perspective. METHODS A total of 1,477 patients recruited from the Canary Islands Health Service mental health and primary care departments were invited to complete the nine-item Shared ...

introduCtion: In shared decision-making (SDM) clinicians and patients arrive at a joint treatment decision, by incorporating best available evidence and the patients’ personal values and preferences. Little is known about the role of SDM in (paediatric) plastic surgery. For patients with congenital vascular malformations, many therapeutic options exist, ranging from surgery to compression stock...

Space division multiplexing (SDM) utilizing few-mode fibers or multicore fibers supporting multiple spatial channels, is currently under intense investigation as an efficient approach to overcome the current capacity limit of high-speed longhaul transmission systems based on single mode optical fibers. In order to realize the potential energy and cost savings offered by SDM systems, the individ...

BACKGROUND Patient centred communication (PCC) has been described as a method for doctor-patient communication. The principles of shared decision making (SDM) have been proposed more recently. AIMS This study aimed to examine PCC and SDM empirically with respect to their mutual association, the variation in practitioners' working styles, and the associations with patient characteristics. ME...