Implementation and Evaluation of Patient Decision Support Strategies
August 28-31, 2011 • Hanover, NH
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."– Aristotle
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the planning committee, we are pleased to invite you the 2011 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice. This year's focus will be on designing, launching, and successfully sustaining decision support services in a clinical setting.
We have carefully planned this year’s agenda to incorporate essential elements of health care delivery science. There will be three days of didactic multi and interdisciplinary presentations by local, national and international innovators delivered in a modified case study format. This framework will allow a
comprehensive evaluation of barriers and facilitators to success. Patients and families will also be engaged to provide the voice of the consumer regarding patient‐centered health care design and delivery.
Don’t miss this opportunity to network, share ideas and strategies, and hear from those who have dedicated themselves to “learn by doing” in the quest to make informed patient choice and patient decision support the standard of care internationally. Registration will open soon. Please visit our website for updates and information http://tdi.dartmouth.edu/centers/informed‐choice/.
We hope that you can join us!
Sincerely,
Dale Collins Vidal, MD, MS
Co‐Director, 2011 Summer Institute
Director, Center for Informed Choice
The Dartmouth Institute for Health
Policy and Clinical Practice
Lebanon, NH, USA
Glyn Elwyn, BA, MB, BCh, FRCGP, PhD
Co‐Director, 2011 Summer Institute
Professor of Primary Care Medicine
Research Director, Department of Primary
Care and Public Health, Cardiff University
General Practitioner, North Cardiff Medical
Centre Cardiff, Wale, UK
Shared mind: another look at how doctors, patients and families make difficult choices
A guest lecture by Professor Ronald Epstein
The Decision Laboratory is delighted to be hosting a visit from from Professor Ron Epstein from the University of Rochester Medical Center, who will provide a guest lecture: Shared mind: another look at how doctors, patients and families make difficult choices.
To take place:
Tues 22nd March, 2pm - 3pm
Rm 1F09, New Lecture Theatre Building, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN
Abstract:
Choices in medicine are made in the context of relationships. These relationships may be short- or long-term, with health professionals, family, on-line communities and others. While relationships may interfere with individual patient autonomy by introducing biases and values other than the patient’s own, they can also bolster patients’ autonomy, perspective-taking and clarity in situations characterized by difficult choices, strong emotions and ambiguity. Drawing on the psychological concept of intersubjectivity, and research on the interpersonal neurobiology of relationships, I will examine qualities and facilitators of shared information, shared deliberation and shared mind in health care.
About Ron Epstein:
Ronald Epstein MD is Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology and Nursing at the University of Rochester, and board-certified in Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He directs the Center for Communication and Disparities Research and the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Program. Dr. Epstein’s research has added to our understanding of the impact of patient-physician relationships and communication on health, health care and health care costs. He has developed innovative educational programs in mindful practice, communication skills, the patient-physician relationship, physician self-awareness and assessment of professional competence, including peer assessment. His influential papers have outlined habits of mind of master clinicians (Mindful Practice, JAMA, 1999), professional competence (JAMA, 2002) and assessment (NEJM, 2007). Recently, he demonstrated effects of a mindful communication program on physician empathy, burnout and clinical care (JAMA 2009). He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and an additional 60 chapters, editorials and monographs.
Further Information: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/fammed/about/fac_staff/epstein_ron.cfm
For inquiries, please contact Angela Watkins: watkinsa6@cardiff.ac.uk
Making patient centred care a reality
A visiting lecture by Professors Michel Barry and Albert Mulley
10 June 2010
The Decision Laboratory is delighted to announce the forthcoming visit from Professors Michael Barry and Albert Mulley, who will be leading a series of lecturers and seminars at Cardiff University in October.
A public lecture will be offered on Monday 5th October (5pm, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University), entitled: 'The poor quality of medical decisions and what we can do about it'. To attend, please RSVP Dawn Cassley, email: CassleyDM@cf.ac.uk
Professors Michael Barry and Albert Mulley will be visiting 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. The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making is a non-profit organization dedicated to assuring that people understand their choices and have the information they need to make sound decisions affecting their health and well-being.
Professor Michael Barry’s researcher bio:http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/profile/member/146/0/
Professor Albert Mulley’s researcher bio:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~trustees/biographies/mulley.html
If you would like to find out more about the visit, please email DecisionLaboratory@cf.ac.uk
Recently held Decision Laboratory events:
Designing Decision Support for Shared Decision Making
Training Workshop: using International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS)
Friday 3 April 2009
8:30am - 4:00pm,
Overview
The
interest in involving patients in healthcare decisions, and work with
health professionals to select tests and treatments has increased
dramatically over the past decade. Such approaches to medical decision
making has led to the development of Decision Support Technologies
(DSTs), also known as Patient Decision aids, intended to help
individuals learn about the features, issues and implications of
options they need to consider.
The Decision Laboratory team would like to express their thanks to all the attendees of the training event who joined us from Europe, United States and Australia.
 Professor Adrian Edwards delivering his 'Risk Communication |  Professor Martin Härter and workshop attendees taking part in |
Speakers
Marie-Anne Durand,
Adrian Edwards,
Glyn Elwyn,
Martin Härter,
Natalie Joseph-Williams,
Trudy van der Weijden, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Click here to download the training workshop evaluation form
