A call for community-shared decisions

Affiliations

¹ University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, California, USA jdoctor@usc.edu.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
⁶ University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷ RAND Europe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
⁸ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Jason N Doctor et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 21;30(2):80-83.

doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112641.

¹ University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, California, USA jdoctor@usc.edu.
² Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
⁶ University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷ RAND Europe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
⁸ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Clinical Decision-Making; Ethics; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Policy; Quality of Health Care.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: JD receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and Edwards Lifesciences.

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