Michael J. Barry, Susan Edgman-Levitan
N Engl J Med 2012; 366:780-781 March 1, 2012
- "Although talk about patient-centered care is ubiquitous in modern health care, one of the greatest challenges of turning the rhetoric into reality continues to be routinely engaging patients in decision making"
- "Recognition of shared decision making as the pinnacle of patient-centered care is overdue. We will have succeeded in building a truly patient-centered health care system when an informed woman can decide whether to have a screening mammogram and an informed man can consider whether to have a screening prostate-specific–antigen test without their clinicians labeling the decision “wrong” on the basis of different values and preferences."
