Dear Huw,
To its credit, EBHC has drawn attention to the need to give information to patients (such as using easily understood summary stats) and the need to incorporate patient's values and preferences in decisions. For too long, however, it has concentrated on the content of communication and overlooked the process. Check the EBHC textbooks, you will find lots on decision aids, including even the the rarely feasible decision tree with lots of branches where we are supposed to give the precise probabilities for each choice, something we rarely have. You will find very little on the consultation skills that you need to do some vital things, like for example, (1) establishing whether the patient wants to participate in decisions (2) assessing the verbal and numerical skills of the patient (3) packaging the information into palatable chunks (4) checking understanding and lots more.
From the standpoint of the GP world where a lot of research and development has gone into consultations, I drew attention to this deficit at a Conference on teaching EBHC at Hanze University, Groningen, Netherlands in 2006 and I still believe that we in the EBHC world should draw on the existing body of knowledge. I am not sure we need a separate heading of SDM. For an example of what I mean, you could look at
· Applying The Evidence: Acceptability at http://www.angliangp.org.uk/evidence_based_GP.htm
Kev Hopayian
Dear Glyn, Tammy and all
I fully support the incorporation of SDM into EBM. SDM involves incorporating using the patient’s own ‘evidence’ to predict which option will probably benefit that patient best. This ‘evidence’ is based on the patient’s past personal experience and is combined with the collective, carefully documented experience of researchers studying groups of patients (which is what is usually regarded as the ‘evidence’ of evidence-based medicine). Any evidence based on past experience (of the patient or researcher) can be termed ‘general’ evidence, and evidence based on the patient’s symptoms, signs and test results in a particular situation can be termed ‘particular’ evidence. These terms are based on ‘particular’ and ‘general’ propositions in logic.
The individual patient’s current symptoms, signs and test results is an essential part of the total ‘evidence’ that is used to arrive at diagnoses and to choose the course of action that will probably provide the greatest benefit. So in order to be transparent about ALL the evidence that is used to share a medical decision with a patient, it is important to specify which symptoms, signs and test results were used to arrive at each diagnosis in that ‘particular’ patient and the resulting choice of treatment (see pages 9, 10 and 11 of Chapter 1 of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199232963_chapter1.pdf).
I have practiced and taught this approach to sharing and agreeing diagnoses and decisions and documenting them at the bedside and in clinics throughout my career. This approach and how to link each diagnosis and decision to the evidence used to make them is also explained in Chapter 1 of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis (see for example pages 12, 13, 16 and 17). I would therefore like to suggest the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis as another resource that also promotes ‘Shared Decision Making’ at the point of care.
Huw
Dr Huw Llewelyn MD FRCP
General Physician and Endocrinologist
Hon Fellow
Aberystwyth University
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Dear all
Thanks for your post Glyn. We couldn’t agree more about the need for closer alignment of EBP and SDM.
One of the ways to promote the uptake of SDM is for teaching about SDM (and the skills needed to do this) to occur as part of EBP teaching (either in workshops or in more formal courses; at both the undergraduate level and for clinicians)
A small group of us (myself, Chris Del Mar, and Victor Montori) are planning to hold some discussions and a workshop about this issue at the Evidence-Based Health Care International Joint Conference in Sicily in October.
As part of this, we would like to gather together any existing resources which people are already using to teach clinicians (and student clinicians) how to talk with patients about evidence and how to facilitate shared decision making.
We're aware of some resources, but suspect there may be many more and often ones that are only used locally. We'd be grateful if you could email these to me. After the conference, we'll happily share the compiled list of resources (and the resources themselves where possible) and a summary of the issues discussed with the list.
Many thanks
Tammy
Associate Professor Tammy Hoffmann
Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice
Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine
Bond University Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Tel: +61 7 5595 5522
www.crebp.net.au
http://works.bepress.com/tammy_hoffmann/
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Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013 9:54 PM
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Dear Colleagues
Just joined this listserv - you may have already seen this - so apologies for repeats.
A Mayo-led team (Montori/LeBlanc) organised the 7th conference in Lima (terrific by the way), where Gordon Gyuatt gave an excellent keynote.
Keynote: EBM needs SDM needs EBM with Dr. Gordon Guyatt
http://isdm2013.org/video-archive/
Others from the EBHC community gave workshops. Interesting to reflect in 2013 how I got into this SDM area from a kick-off in Oxford-based week-long events many years ago, where Greenhalgh, Milne, Sackett, and many others were strong on the need for evidence etc.
High time even more bridges were built between EBHC (sample based data) and the need to respect individual, yet informed, preferences (personal level decision making).
There was evidence of culture dissonance for sure - the word 'recommendation' - weak or strong - was under debate in one workshop where GRADE was under the spotlight. Yet the mood was one of a genuine attempt to integrate these population / individual stances somehow. Looking forward to those conversations.
Glyn
Professor Glyn Elwyn
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