Credit: Getty Images Improving the quality of patients’ health care decisions is feasible with the right educational tools. Something about focusing on hitting a bouncy yellow tennis ball just right ...

Shared decision-making enhances patients’ engagement in their care and can result in improved outcomes and reduced costs, according to a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine. While ...

Medically reviewed by Kate Colby, MPH Key Takeaways The CDC shifted some vaccine guidance to shared clinical decision-making, ...

Shared decision-making in healthcare, in which patients and providers share information and jointly make decisions based on the individual needs of the patient, requires a significant investment, ...

Patients are often faced with difficult healthcare decisions, particularly when choosing treatment options for a medical condition. Historically, physicians made treatment decisions for patients.

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 ...

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, ...

For people who grew up in the United States, navigating health care can be complicated and intimidating, according to Sawsan Salah, a doctoral candidate in biobehavioral health at Penn State. Those ...

Lidia Schapira, MD, FASCO, professor of medicine at Stanford Medicine, medical oncologist, and director for the Stanford Cancer Institute and the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, shares ways in ...

During an episode of the first season of “Scrubs,” Dr. Perry Cox, played by John C. McGinley, boasted to a group of clinicians that every patient that had been in the ICU when he started his shift at ...

A shared decision-making aid can be beneficial during the treatment process for patients with lung cancer, according to a ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...