Forbes April 16, 2024
Researchers examining how patients make medical decisions are turning up some unexpected findings.
For instance, giving potential knee replacement patients an online tool that predicts their personal surgical outcome does not (surprise!) necessarily change how many patients want surgery, one study found.
A separate study examining in four very different nations how doctors and patients make decisions together concluded that a negotiation resembling “a final price haggled in a flea market” could (surprise!) be a “best practice.”
What the two studies have in common is that each highlights the gap between shared decision or “participatory medicine” theory and the messiness of real-world interactions.
In the first study, in JAMA Network Open, Australian patients with knee osteoarthritis got access to an...
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