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. 2019 Oct;102(10):1786-1792.
doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2019.07.020. Epub 2019 Jul 19.

Purposeful SDM: A problem-based approach to caring for patients with shared decision making

Ian G Hargraves  1 , Victor M Montori  2 , Juan P Brito  2 , Marleen Kunneman  3 , Kevin Shaw  4 , Christina LaVecchia  4 , Michael Wilson  5 , Laura Walker  6 , Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir  7
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Purposeful SDM: A problem-based approach to caring for patients with shared decision making

Ian G Hargraves et al. Patient Educ Couns. 2019 Oct.

Abstract

Objective: Patient involvement focused the growth of Shared Decision Making (SDM) in contemporary healthcare practice, research, and education. Whilst important, securing appropriate patient involvement or equipping patients to choose is not necessarily the principal purpose of SDM. The purpose of SDM like all medical decision making is to act well in response to a patient's problem, broadly conceived. In which situations and how SDM addresses patient problems is unclear. We seek to develop a purposeful approach to SDM that is oriented to the kinds of problems that SDM might help resolve.

Methods: Through vignettes of the experience of a patient, Rachel we demonstrate different kinds of situations in which Rachel, her family, and clinicians need to make decisions together.

Results: Different methods of SDM are needed in situations of: CONCLUSION: SDM may be understood as a range of methods that vary substantially with patients' situations and the purpose that they pursue.

Practice implications: Clinicians struggle to adopt SDM when they do not see it as relevant to clinical work. Orienting SDM to the problems that patients and clinicians routinely face may further SDM adoption, education, and research.

Keywords: Involvement; Patient involvement; Problems; Purposes; Shared decision making.

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No authors of this paper have a current or potential conflict of interest with the work presented in this paper.

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Figure 1.
Some of the interrelated matters that Rachel, her clinicians, and family need to work through and problem solve together to manage and advance Rachel’s situation in the ICU
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