Embracing the biopsychosocial and psychosocial characteristics of our patients

I write extensively about shared-decision making and patient´preferences as part of our decision making orthopaedics. Hence I considered this Invited Paper by Quaile, Mavrogenis and Scarlat in the International Orthopaedics as truly excellent piece: Managing patients’ expectations in orthopaedics. Authors write among other things: There is a problem with patient-reported outcome measurements, PROMs, as depressive symptoms and […]

Core elements in shared decision making process

Shared decision making is becoming a fundamental part of clinical practice also in orthopaedics. This should not be a problem in our field because many different questionnaires are used in SDM and our field have decades of experience in patient rated outcome measures (PROM). Valintine et al. investigated how a certain SDM questionnaire “Shared Decision […]

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