Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. Shared decision-making between doctors and patients may be ...

When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5 that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they argued that the move would give parents and caregivers more ...

On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dramatically reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11, citing practices in other wealthy nations, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Shared decision-making mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy and left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccine hesitancy is more common among people who seek information from the ...

Shared decision making (SDM) is an approach where clinicians and patients make decisions together using the best available evidence. Although much studied, recognized to be ethically imperative, and ...

Nurses see themselves as playing a valuable role in the shared-decision making process. Nurses play an important and multifaceted role in shared decision-making, but their contributions aren’t always ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians reported striving to minimize treatment burden and working with children with chronic kidney disease ...

We agree with Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby and coauthors (Nov 2019) that policy initiatives on shared decision making (SDM) place undue emphasis on Eurocentric individualistic choices without adequately ...

Shared decision making (SDM)—when clinicians and patients make medical decisions together—is moving swiftly from an ethical ideal toward widespread clinical implementation affecting millions of ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday that its Innovation Center is launching a pair of 5-year demonstration projects aimed at evaluating different approaches to shared ...