OBJECTIVE: Given the fluidity with which the term shared decision making (SDM) is used in
teaching, assessment and research, we conducted a focused and systematic review of …

Patients' preferences in the treatment of depression are important in clinical practice and in
research. Antidepressant medication is often prescribed, but adherence is low. This may be …

Background: Patients' trust in their health care providers may affect their satisfaction and
health outcomes. Despite the potential importance of trust, there are few studies of its …

Quality of life (QoL) is increasingly becoming a key concept in research and clinical services.
However, no agreement exists on what QoL is and how it is to be measured. This paper …

Many cost-of-illness studies have investigated the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on
productivity, invariably concluding that productivity costs are high. Different methods exist to …

This paper proposes a quantitative modification of standard utility elicitation procedures,
such as the probability and certainty equivalence methods, to correct for commonly …

Goals of work Although many patients with ovarian cancer achieve favorable responses to
primary chemotherapy, the majority of women will experience recurrence of their cancer …

The power family, also known as the family of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA), is the
most widely used parametric family for fitting utility functions to data. Its characteristics have …

Background: This article deals with one of the themes from interviews in a larger qualitative
study about cancer patients' perceptions of good caring. It is widely recognized today that …

Background—To perform decision analyses that include stroke as one of the possible health
states, the utilities of stroke states must be determined. We reviewed the literature to obtain …