Of blind men and elephants: suggesting SDM-MASS as a compound measure for shared decision making integrating patient, physician and observer views.

  • Friedemann Geiger
  • Jürgen Kasper

Abstract

Shared decision making (SDM) between patient and physician is an interpersonal process. Most SDM measures use the view of one party (patient, physician or observer) as a proxy to capture this process although these views typically diverge. This study suggests the compound measure SDM(MASS) (SDM Meeting its concept's ASSumptions) integrating these three perspectives in one single index.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN1865-9217
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22749076