TY - JOUR
T1 - What is a good medical decision? A research agenda guided by perspectives from multiple stakeholders
AU - Hamilton, Jada G.
AU - Lillie, Sarah E.
AU - Alden, Dana L.
AU - Scherer, Laura
AU - Oser, Megan
AU - Rini, Christine Marie
AU - Tanaka, Miho
AU - Baleix, John
AU - Brewster, Mikki
AU - Craddock Lee, Simon
AU - Goldstein, Mary K.
AU - Jacobson, Robert M.
AU - Myers, Ronald E.
AU - Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J.
AU - Waters, Erika A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - Informed and shared decision making are critical aspects of patient-centered care, which has contributed to an emphasis on decision support interventions to promote good medical decision making. However, researchers and healthcare providers have not reached a consensus on what defines a good decision, nor how to evaluate it. This position paper, informed by conference sessions featuring diverse stakeholders held at the 2015 Society of Behavioral Medicine and Society for Medical Decision Making annual meetings, describes key concepts that influence the decision making process itself and that may change what it means to make a good decision: interpersonal factors, structural constraints, affective influences, and values clarification methods. This paper also proposes specific research questions within each of these priority areas, with the goal of moving medical decision making research to a more comprehensive definition of a good medical decision, and enhancing the ability to measure and improve the decision making process.
AB - Informed and shared decision making are critical aspects of patient-centered care, which has contributed to an emphasis on decision support interventions to promote good medical decision making. However, researchers and healthcare providers have not reached a consensus on what defines a good decision, nor how to evaluate it. This position paper, informed by conference sessions featuring diverse stakeholders held at the 2015 Society of Behavioral Medicine and Society for Medical Decision Making annual meetings, describes key concepts that influence the decision making process itself and that may change what it means to make a good decision: interpersonal factors, structural constraints, affective influences, and values clarification methods. This paper also proposes specific research questions within each of these priority areas, with the goal of moving medical decision making research to a more comprehensive definition of a good medical decision, and enhancing the ability to measure and improve the decision making process.
KW - Decision making
KW - Decision quality
KW - Patient participation
KW - Patient-centered care
KW - Physician–patient communication
KW - Shared decision making
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U2 - 10.1007/s10865-016-9785-z
DO - 10.1007/s10865-016-9785-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 27566316
AN - SCOPUS:84983766432
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 40
SP - 52
EP - 68
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 1
ER -
