Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: A scoping review (May 2022)

Summary

Finding out a patient's perspective about their care and treatment is a key part of shared decision making, but healthcare professionals do not always proactively do this in practice. This scoping review in the journal Patient Education and Counselling explored the extent to which the personal perspectives of patients are drawn out by clinicians during a consultation, as part of a shared decision making process. It reviewed studies in five databases about shared decision making.

The authors found that studies reported low levels of healthcare professionals eliciting patient perspectives, The majority of content healthcare professionals and patients discussed related to physical health, with social and psychological topics mostly unaddressed.