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ReviewClinical kidney journal2023

Shared decision making: a personal view from two kidney doctors and a patient.

Barnaby Hole, Miranda Scanlon, Charlie Tomson

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Review in Clinical kidney journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The dynamics of deceased donor kidney transplant decision making: insights from studying individual clinicians' offer decisions.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025
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  11. Mind the gap in kidney care: Translating what we know into what we do.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024
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  13. Mind the Gap in Kidney Care: Translating What We Know Into What We do.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Barnaby HoleNorth Bristol NHS Trust, Department of Nephrology, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2414-1302
Miranda ScanlonNorth Bristol NHS Trust, Department of Nephrology, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-3093
Charlie TomsonNorth Bristol NHS Trust, Department of Nephrology, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-8726

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shared decision making (SDM) combines the clinician's expertise in the treatment of disease with the patient's expertise in their lived experience and what is important to them. All decisions made in the care of patients with kidney disease can potentially be explored through SDM. Adoption of SDM in routine kidney care faces numerous institutional and practical barriers. Patients with chronic disease who have become accustomed to paternalistic care may need support to engage in SDM-even though most patients actively want more involvement in decisions about their care. Nephrologists often underestimate the risks and overestimate the benefits of investigations and treatments and often default to recommending burdensome treatments rather than discussing prognosis openly. Guideline bodies continue to issue recommendations written for healthcare professionals without providing patient decision aids. To mitigate health inequalities, care needs to be taken to provide SDM to all patients, not just the highly health-literate patients least likely to need additional support in decision making. Kidney doctors spend much of their time in the consulting room, and it is unjustifiable that so little attention is paid to the teaching, audit and maintenance of consultation skills. Writing letters to the patient to summarise the consultation rather than sending them a copy of a letter between health professionals sets the tone for a consultation in which the patient is an active partner. Adoption of SDM will require nephrologists to relinquish long-established paternalistic models of care and restructure care around the values and preferences of patients.

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decision-makingdecision support techniqueshealth inequitieskidney diseasespatient-centred careshared

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PMCPMC10497374

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