Decision Laboratory at ISDM 201107 June 2011 Members of the Decision Laboratory provided 17 following aural and poster presentations at the 6th International Shared Decision Making conference, held in Maastricht 19-22 June. |  |
ASH Wales website features Decision Laboratory developed smoking cessation support tool June 2011 |  |
Glyn Elwyn and colleagues urge patients and clinicians to share healthcare decisions23 March 2011 In December 2010, 58 people from 18 countries attended a Salzburg Global Seminar to consider the role patients can and should play in healthcare decisions. Today, they publish a statement urging patients and clinicians “to work together to be co-producers of health.” |
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Shared@EACH - Shared Decision Making Network24 January 2011 Find out more about the Shared@EACH Facebook group at: http://tiny.cc/shared |  |
Glyn Elwyn and Richard Thomson to discuss MAGIC programme in forthcoming NHS webinar26 April 2011 Professor Glyn Elwyn will take part in a webinar hosted by the NHS, to discuss the MAGIC programme (MAking Good decisions In Collaboration with patients) along with the study's co-PI, Professor Richard Thomson st the University of Newcastle. |  |
Glyn Elwyn at the Salzburg Global Seminar18 December 2010 Professor Glyn Elwyn joined international collaborators from FIMDM, the Foundation for Informed Decision Making, to lead the Salzburg Global Seminar in December 2010. Entitled, ‘Health and Healthcare Seminar Series II: The Greatest Untapped Resource in Healthcare? Informing and Involving Patients in Decisions about Their Medical Care’. |  |
Glyn Elwyn provides keynote Catharina Pijls Lecture at CAPHRI, Maastricht University
1st December 2010
Professor Glyn Elwyn provided the keynote Catharina Pijls Lecture at CAPHRI, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, on 30th November 2010. The lecture was entitled “Choice, options, preferences: learning a new language in health care” and addressed the change in discourse in clinical encounters as we move towards an increasingly patient centric model of medicine, as signalled by the phrase 'no decision about me, without me'.Visit from Harvard experts in shared decision making marks the launch of MAGIC programme11th October 2010 Last week, Professor Glyn Elwyn and the Decision Laboratory had the honour of hosting visiting Professors Albert Mulley and Michael Barry from Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Both belong to the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, where Professor Barry is the President and Professor Mulley is the Co-Founder. Cardiff University works closely with the Foundation to conduct pioneering research in shared decision making. |
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The Health Foundation fund Shared Decision Making Programme
3 August 2010 Professor Glyn Elwyn and colleagues have been awarded a programme grant by The Health Foundation to work on the implementation of shared decision making in a number of clinical teams, including breast, head and neck cancer and primary care. | |
Ernst Strüngmann Forum for envisioning health care 202004 November 2009 Decision Laboratory co-lead, Professor Glyn Elwyn was part of the team of international experts who met in Frankfurt last week to systematically analyse the multiple issues involved in health literacy - a problem that affects both patients and health-care providers, and hinders the delivery of of quality health care.
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New Decision Laboratory study awarded: Examining the relationship between decision support interventions and outcome measurementsOctober 2009 This one year study will build upon the quality checklist and instrument developed by the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration (IPDAS) which measures the quality of patient decision support interventions. |  |
Prosdex recommended in revised guides for GPs
27 July 2009 Decision Laboratory patient decision support intervention, Prosdex has been recommended in updated prostate screening guidance for GPs and patients developed by the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes. |  |
amnioDex wins international accoladeJune 2009 Decision Laboratory website, amnioDex has won the two top awards of ‘Best of Show’ and ‘Gold Award’ at the 2009 Health and Science Communications Association (HeSCA) Media Festival held in St Louis, USA. |  |
Decision Laboratory at ISDM Conference 2009June 2009 The Decision Laboratory team were well represented at the 5th International Shared Decision Making Conference, Boston, MA. |  |
New Book Published: Shared decision-making in health care Achieving evidence-based patient choice (Second Edition).Edited by Adrian Edwards and Glyn ElwynMay 2009 When the first edition of this book came out in 2001, it examined the emerging themes of patient choice and clinical decision-making, and looked at how these might develop in the future. Since then, these issues have become even more topical. |  |
