Shared Decision-Making

Patients valued shared decision making because it protected autonomy and control over illness and treatment. Healthcare professionals connected shared decision making to patient motivation, adherence, and health outcomes. Patient involvement is associated with improved compliance, adherence, satisfaction, and engagement. The findings suggest appropriately adjusted resources can enable more people with dementia to participate in discharge-related shared decision-making. Women with breast cancer often prefer an active role during medical consultations, and higher perceived shared decision-making is associated with greater satisfaction and lower depression. Shared decision-making can improve decision-related outcomes, communication, treatment adherence, satisfaction, and patient empowerment. Discussing treatment options and side effects with breast cancer patients can support psychological well-being. Shared decision-making is described as a shift away from paternalistic clinician-directed care. Older, first-generation, and more recently immigrated South Asian patients were more likely to defer to clinician judgment rather than actively participate in treatment decisions. A prior met…