What exactly is shared decision making and why is it important to know? As a starting point to understanding the new vaccine ...

The CDC's shared decision-making approach for vaccinations is misunderstood, leading to public confusion and potential undermining of vaccine confidence. Surveys show many Americans incorrectly ...

Groundbreaking research is shifting the understanding of human decision-making processes by highlighting the importance of goal-oriented rewards. Groundbreaking research from UC Berkeley's Department ...

On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dramatically reduced the number of recommended childhood ...

Delivering high-quality care starts with understanding what matters most to each patient. Clinicians can’t choose treatments that match patients’ priorities and values until they engage with them. The ...

Many of the teens with whom I work struggle with indecision. Reasons for their difficulty with making a choice include that they feel inexperienced, worry about making the wrong choice, are concerned ...

Advances in the environmental health sciences – from high-throughput cell-based in vitro studies to environment-wide association studies – have led to new approaches to understanding the toxicity of ...

The study of complexity in political decision-making addresses crucial questions at the intersection of cognitive science, ...

Table 1 shows the 18 items rank-ordered by their means. Of these items, patients not following through with treatment plans (mean = 3.29), insufficient time (mean = 3.28), difficulties getting ...