Search results for "Shared decision making"
Economic pressures turn art of medicine into rote practice
While much of a clinician's stature among peers depends on encyclopedic understanding of the scientific literature, his or her effectiveness depends largely on well-honed skills of communication and relationship building. Never have such skills been more critical or more challenging than they are today.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/09/presidents.htm
1 Sep 2009
Physicians can help patients decide about end-of-life issues
The recent decrying of “government death panelsâ€ï¿½ undercuts patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice, and physicians have a duty to take a leadership role in the debate over health care reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/11/presidents.htm
1 Nov 2009
Rethinking the value of the annual exam
Patients expect it and internists won't let it go. But does the evidence support the need for the periodic health exam? Experts weigh in on the value of regularly seeing a patient on a preventive basis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/annual.htm
1 Jan 2010
Political perils of cost control complicate health care reform
Even if health reform passes, the problem of rising costs will not go away. And politicians cannot confront the fundamental issue that Americans can't have all the health care they want.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/washington.htm
1 Jan 2010
New ACPNet project on low back pain
ACP has introduced a new program in its ACPNet series, one of ACP's most long-lasting and popular online practice and quality improvement programs.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/02/02/13.htm
2 Feb 2010
Tool helps estimate heart failure patients' risk for low quality of life
Researchers have designed a simple tool to help recognize heart failure patients who, at the time of hospital discharge, are at high risk for death or a persistently unfavorable quality of life.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/28/4.htm
28 Jun 2011
Aiding patients' decisions on PSA screening
Routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening of all men over a certain age began about 20 years ago, but the certainty about whether that was or is wise medical practice is long gone.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/07/prostate.htm
1 Jul 2011
Evaluating what is important about performance measures
Connecting with the patient and improving their health should be the key factor behind implementing performance measures in the health care system.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/presidents.htm
1 Nov 2011
Medical professionalism faces new challenges, opportunities
Ten years later, a physician charter challenges doctors to accept commitments to professional competence, improved quality and access to care, and professionalism in conduct.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2012
Guideline issued on sudden hearing loss
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Foundation recently released a guideline on diagnosis, management and follow-up of sudden hearing loss in adults.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/03/13/6.htm
13 Mar 2012