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ArticlePLoS medicine2018

The importance and challenges of shared decision making in older people with multimorbidity.

Tammy Hoffmann, Jesse Jansen, Paul Glasziou

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tammy HoffmannCentre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Robina, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5210-8548
Jesse JansenWiser Healthcare Program, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Paul GlasziouCentre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Robina, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7564-073X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a Perspective, Tammy Hoffmann and colleagues discuss medical decision making for elderly patients with multimorbidity.

Indexed as

Decision MakingMultimorbidityNoncommunicable DiseasesPatient ParticipationAgedClinical Decision-MakingHumansPatient Care ManagementPatient PreferenceRisk Assessment

Identifiers

PMID29534067
PMCPMC5849298

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