Communicating statin evidence to support shared decision-making
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- 作者：Bruce Barrett ; Jason Ricco ; Margaret Wallace ; David Kiefer…
- 关键词：Attitude to health ; Cholesterol ; Clinical significance ; Cost ; benefit analysis ; Decision making ; Evidence ; based medicine ; Guidelines ; Lipids ; Minimal important difference ; Outcomes ; Patient preference ; Preventive cardiology ; Primary care ; Quality of life ; Shared decision ; making ; Statins
- 刊名：BMC Family Practice
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：478 KB
- 刊物主题：General Practice / Family Medicine; Primary Care Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2296
文摘
Background The practice of clinical medicine rests on a foundation of ethical principles as well as scientific knowledge. Clinicians must artfully balance the principle of beneficence, doing what is best for patients, with autonomy, allowing patients to make their own well-informed health care decisions. The clinical communication process is complicated by varying degrees of confidence in scientific evidence regarding patient-oriented benefits, and by the fact that most medical options are associated with possible harms as well as potential benefits.