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Shared Decision Making: Putting The Patient at the Center of Healthcare

By explicitly recognizing a patient’s right to make decisions about their care, shared decision making can help ensure that care is truly patient-centered.

As gravity shifts away from health care providers as the sole keeper of medical information, the importance of sharing decisions, as opposed to clinicians making decisions on behalf of patients, has been increasingly recognized.

Shared decision-making (SDM) is the conversation that happens between a patient and clinician to reach a healthcare choice together.

Shared Decision Making: Putting The Patient at the Center of Healthcare