Hamann J, Loh A, Kasper J, Neuner B, Spies C, Kissling W, Härter M, Heesen C.

Involving patients in medical decisions is increasingly being advocated in medical fields other than psychiatry and neurology. A model of shared decision making might prove to be an ideal way of bridging the gap between patient-centred and evidence-based medicine. This report provides a survey of this shared decision making model and a discussion of its implications in the fields of mental health and neurology.

Nervenarzt 2006;77:1071-6, 1078.



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