Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and heart disease face challenging
treatment decisions. We sought to explore the perceptions of patients and physicians about …

Rationale & Objective Greater understanding of the challenges to shared decision making
about treatment of advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) is needed to support …

Patients with chronic kidney disease are required to make difficult decisions, negotiating
between the risks, burdens and benefits for any proposed course. This process can be …

Rationale & objective Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative effort between
healthcare professionals, individuals with CKD whereby clinical evidence, expected …

Rationale & Objective Research on shared decision making (SDM) in chronic kidney
disease (CKD) has focused almost exclusively on the modality of kidney replacement …

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors influencing patient involvement in decision-making in the
context of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and effective interventions to support their decision …

Background Given the complexity and variety in treatment options for advanced chronic
kidney disease (CKD), shared decision-making (SDM) can be a challenge. SDM is needed …

In health care, the premise of shared decision making (SDM) is deeply rooted in an ethical
viewpoint of patient-centered care, expressed in the saying “nothing about me without me.” 1 …

It has been widely demonstrated that patient education and empowerment, especially
involving shared treatment decisions, improve patient outcomes in chronic medical …

Shared decision making (SDM) combines the clinician's expertise in the treatment of
disease with the patient's expertise in their lived experience and what is important to them …