In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Backing this up are recent findings by the Federal Reserve Board, which unearth an ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that its Innovation Center is launching a pair of 5-year demonstration projects aimed at evaluating different approaches to shared ...

Patients are often faced with difficult healthcare decisions, particularly when choosing treatment options for a medical condition. Historically, physicians made treatment decisions for patients.

We found that providers are comprehensive in the factors they consider when recommending clinical trials. The two most frequently stated factors were performance status (89%) and patient preferences ...

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 ...

Healthcare professionals practicing shared decision-making with their patients may want to consider using patient decision aids (PDAs) to support that work. This is because shared decision-making ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients want to have conversations about costs of care. Fewer than 15% of patients report having these ...

Listen to the Trump administration’s rhetoric about vaccines and you’ll hear a refrain. In September, what replaced the government recommendation that everyone over 6 months get an annual Covid shot? ...

Credit: Getty Images Respect for the autonomy of patients does not mean leaving them to navigate health care decisions on their own. Shared decision-making enables physicians to serve as guides to ...

On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dramatically reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11, citing practices in other wealthy nations, ...