Validation of the shared decision-making model in the context of a patient presenting to the emergency department with chest pain of possible cardiac origin.

The intention of this thesis was to investigate the feasibility of clinical shared decision-making. If physicians are to contribute to a shared decision process, they will need to be able to communicate unbiased information to their patients clearly. Thus, physicians need to provide some form of qua...

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Main Author: Flaws, Dylan Finlay
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Psychology 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3283