Center for Shared Decision Making | Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Center for Shared Decision Making The Center for Shared Decision Making opened in 1999 as the first center in the U.S. dedicated to encouraging doctors and patients to make decisions together. Our resources can help you start and support your own health care decision support service. The Dartmouth Institute Decision support toolkits These toolkits were developed in collaboration with the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation. You may use any of these tools at no cost and without permission provided you cite their use in any publications or presentations. Decision Support Toolkit for Primary Care Guidelines and tools for integrating decision support into primary care Decision Support Toolkit for Specialty Care Guidelines and tools for integrating decision support into specialty care (breast cancer and hip/knee osteoarthritis) Training Modules in Decision Support as a Clinical Skill Background reading and slide sets for self-teaching or training workshops.
Resources | Center for Shared Decision Making | Patients & Visitors | Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Surrogate Decision Makers' Interpretation of Prognostic Information: A Mixed-Methods Study. It is 1-3-2: Bronze Medal Winners are Happier than Silver. Yesterday I was sort of watching the Olympics -- reading the New York Times on my iPhone and occasionally glancing-up at the TV.
There was some swimming race I wasn't following on the screen, but I looked-up because of all the enthusiasm by the guy on the screen. I was sure he had won a gold medal. Actually he hadn't, he had won bronze. His name is Brendan Hansen and he won it in the 100 meter breaststroke -- that is him above. In looking into his story, there are lots of reasons for him to be excited,as he was the oldest athlete in the field at 31, he had retired after the Beijing Olympics and done a comeback, he is only the 13th swimmer to win a medal after the age of 30, and he was not favored to win a medal. But his joy on the screen reminded me of a cool study I first heard of nearly 20 years ago that, I strongly suspect, still holds true. P.S. "When less is more: Counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among Olympic medalists. " The Trust Molecule by Paul J. Zak. Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?