TY  - JOUR
T1  - Communicating with physicians about medical decisions: A reluctance to disagree
AU  - Adams JR, Elwyn G, Légaré F, Frosch DL
Y1  - 2012/08/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2360
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1184
EP  - 1186
VL  - 172
IS  - 15
N2  - 
Effective patient-physician communication is essential for shared decision making, considered by some to be the “pinnacle” of patient-centered care.1 Many health care decisions have multiple options and no correct choice. These are called preference-sensitive decisions, and the optimal decision is one that takes into account patient preferences and values in a collaborative process with the physician, known as shared decision making. We sought to describe patients' intentions to engage in shared decision-making communication behaviors in response to a hypothetical preference-sensitive clinical scenario and to examine the effects of underlying patient beliefs on these behaviors.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2360
ER  -