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Glyn Elwyn secondment at Dartmouth

February 2012

The Decision Laboratory team wish Glyn Elwyn all the best as he starts a secondment at the Dartmouth Centre for Health Delivery Science in March. Dr Kate Brain will join Prof Adrian Edwards in leading the Decision Laboratory meetings and work during Glyn's time at Dartmouth.


Option Grids: easy to use shared decision making tools for disadvantaged groups

November 2011

Patient decision support, called ‘shared decision making’, helps patients become active partners in making decisions about their health care and the self-management of their condition. It is known that the use of shared decision making tools leads to better patient knowledge, better decision quality and improved participation.

The aim of this research is to provide evidence that shared decision making tools are effective in brief formats (Option Grids), and this format is effective for use by people disadvantaged by low literacy or language barriers.

Glyn Elwyn at Salzburg Global Seminar Series III

October 2011

Professor Glyn Elwyn joined the faculty for the Salzburg Global Seminar Health and Healthcare Series III, held at Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, September 25 – October 1, 2011.

The session was entitled ‘Innovating for Value in Health Care Delivery: better cross-border learning, smarter adaptation and adoption’, and was third in a series of Salzburg policy forums on health and healthcare responding to the demographic, organizational, and financial challenges on the horizon for the coming generation.

Attended by 19 faculty members and 42 fellows, the session was organized in collaboration with The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire, USA.

Glyn Elwyn provided two presentations, entitled ‘Garnering the greatest untapped resource: engagement of individual patients and communities in determining their health futures’, and ‘How do we recognize success: can we measure what is most important to innovate for value in health care?’

Among the outcomes of the series as a whole will be Salzburg papers on health and healthcare and a dedicated network of health and healthcare Fellows within the Salzburg Global Fellowship.

Further information about the Salzburg Global Seminar, including recordings of the presentations can be found on the: Salzburg Global Seminar website

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