If only more doctors followed this code!

[Guest guest]

Only thing that bothers me here is the use of that disgusting term

'evidence based'

AND

http://e-patients.net/archives/2011/03/the-salzburg-statement-on-shared-decision-making.html

BMJ jumping on board - hummmmmmmm -will have to read this more carefully

- BMJ financed by Merck & others

Sheri

from Meryl Dorey, AVN (o

http://e-patients.net/u/2011/03/Salzburg-Statement.pdf

7th February 2011

The Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making

In December 2010, 58 people from 18 countries attended a Salzburg

Global Seminar to consider the role patients can and should play in

healthcare decisions. Those listed below have agreed a statement that

calls on patients and clinicians to work together to be co-producers of

health.

We call on clinicians to:

· Recognise that they have an ethical imperative to share important

decisions with patients

· Stimulate a two-way flow of information and encourage patients to ask

questions, explain their circumstances, and express their personal

preferences

· Provide accurate information about options and the uncertainties,

benefits, and harms of treatment in line with best practice for risk

communication

· Tailor information to individual patient needs and allow them

sufficient time to consider their options

· Acknowledge that most decisions do not have to be taken immediately,

and give patients and their families the resources and help to reach

decisions.

We call on clinicians, researchers, editors, journalists, and others

to:

· Ensure that the information they provide is clear, evidence-based,

and up to date and that conflicts of interest are declared.

We call on patients to:

· Speak up about their concerns, questions, and what’s important to

them

· Recognise that they have a right to be equal participants in their

care

· Seek and use high-quality health information.

We call on policymakers to:

· Adopt policies that encourage shared decision making, including its

measurement, as a stimulus for improvement

· Amend informed consent laws to support the development of skills and

tools for shared decision making.

Why?

Much of the care patients receive is based on the ability and

readiness of individual clinicians to provide it, rather than on widely

agreed standards of best practice or patients preferences for

treatment.

Clinicians are often slow to recognise the extent to which patients’ wish

to be involved in understanding their health problems, in knowing the

options available to them, and in making decisions that take account of

their personal preferences.

Many patients and their families find it difficult to take an active part

in healthcare decisions. Some lack the confidence to question health

professionals. Many have only a limited understanding about health and

its determinants and do not know where to find information that is clear,

trustworthy, and easy to understand.

Salzburg Global Seminar: The Greatest Untapped Resource in Healthcare?

Informing and Involving Patients in Decisions about Their Medical Care

12 - 17 December 2010 (Session 477)

Further details:

http://www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/477

PARTICIPANTS: Robinah N. Alambuya, Shayma Ali, Kathi

Apostolidis, Molly T. Beinfeld, Sanjay R. Bijwe, ina Bravo,

Brocklehurst, , “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart, Anubhav Dhir,

Carole R. Dodd, Marie-Anne Durand, Simon Eaton, Marjan Faber,

M. Fisler, Peg A. Ford, n Grote Westrick, Dance Gudeva Nikovska,

Mark A. Hendy, Carole , stone, Laitner, Lydia S.

Lam, M. Lee, Holly F. Lynch, Parag C. Mankeekar, Lairumbi M.

Mbaabu, Layla McCay, Marco Monti, W. Moulton, Tendani C.

Muthambi, Jenniffer T. Paguio, Tessa s, Nadia N. Sawicki, Medha S.

Talpade, Ruth Tunick, Eckhard Volbracht, Bruce H. Wade, M.

Wexler, Biao Xu. FACULTY : Barry, Kate Clay, Coulter,

Dixon, Edgman-Levitan, Glyn Elwyn, Gerd Gigerenzer, Carol

Mangione, Roy Moynihan, Albert Mulley, Schwitzer, Anne Stiggelbout,

Wennberg. STAFF: Kathrin Bachleitner, Lotherington, Sinja

Strangmann.

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start March 4

[Guest guest]

Only thing that bothers me here is the use of that disgusting term

'evidence based'

AND

http://e-patients.net/archives/2011/03/the-salzburg-statement-on-shared-decision-making.html

BMJ jumping on board - hummmmmmmm -will have to read this more carefully

- BMJ financed by Merck & others

Sheri

from Meryl Dorey, AVN (o

http://e-patients.net/u/2011/03/Salzburg-Statement.pdf

7th February 2011

The Salzburg Statement on Shared Decision Making

In December 2010, 58 people from 18 countries attended a Salzburg

Global Seminar to consider the role patients can and should play in

healthcare decisions. Those listed below have agreed a statement that

calls on patients and clinicians to work together to be co-producers of

health.

We call on clinicians to:

· Recognise that they have an ethical imperative to share important

decisions with patients

· Stimulate a two-way flow of information and encourage patients to ask

questions, explain their circumstances, and express their personal

preferences

· Provide accurate information about options and the uncertainties,

benefits, and harms of treatment in line with best practice for risk

communication

· Tailor information to individual patient needs and allow them

sufficient time to consider their options

· Acknowledge that most decisions do not have to be taken immediately,

and give patients and their families the resources and help to reach

decisions.

We call on clinicians, researchers, editors, journalists, and others

to:

· Ensure that the information they provide is clear, evidence-based,

and up to date and that conflicts of interest are declared.

We call on patients to:

· Speak up about their concerns, questions, and what’s important to

them

· Recognise that they have a right to be equal participants in their

care

· Seek and use high-quality health information.

We call on policymakers to:

· Adopt policies that encourage shared decision making, including its

measurement, as a stimulus for improvement

· Amend informed consent laws to support the development of skills and

tools for shared decision making.

Why?

Much of the care patients receive is based on the ability and

readiness of individual clinicians to provide it, rather than on widely

agreed standards of best practice or patients preferences for

treatment.

Clinicians are often slow to recognise the extent to which patients’ wish

to be involved in understanding their health problems, in knowing the

options available to them, and in making decisions that take account of

their personal preferences.

Many patients and their families find it difficult to take an active part

in healthcare decisions. Some lack the confidence to question health

professionals. Many have only a limited understanding about health and

its determinants and do not know where to find information that is clear,

trustworthy, and easy to understand.

Salzburg Global Seminar: The Greatest Untapped Resource in Healthcare?

Informing and Involving Patients in Decisions about Their Medical Care

12 - 17 December 2010 (Session 477)

Further details:

http://www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/477

PARTICIPANTS: Robinah N. Alambuya, Shayma Ali, Kathi

Apostolidis, Molly T. Beinfeld, Sanjay R. Bijwe, ina Bravo,

Brocklehurst, , “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart, Anubhav Dhir,

Carole R. Dodd, Marie-Anne Durand, Simon Eaton, Marjan Faber,

M. Fisler, Peg A. Ford, n Grote Westrick, Dance Gudeva Nikovska,

Mark A. Hendy, Carole , stone, Laitner, Lydia S.

Lam, M. Lee, Holly F. Lynch, Parag C. Mankeekar, Lairumbi M.

Mbaabu, Layla McCay, Marco Monti, W. Moulton, Tendani C.

Muthambi, Jenniffer T. Paguio, Tessa s, Nadia N. Sawicki, Medha S.

Talpade, Ruth Tunick, Eckhard Volbracht, Bruce H. Wade, M.

Wexler, Biao Xu. FACULTY : Barry, Kate Clay, Coulter,

Dixon, Edgman-Levitan, Glyn Elwyn, Gerd Gigerenzer, Carol

Mangione, Roy Moynihan, Albert Mulley, Schwitzer, Anne Stiggelbout,

Wennberg. STAFF: Kathrin Bachleitner, Lotherington, Sinja

Strangmann.

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start March 4