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The Relationship Between The Electronic Health Record Patient Portal And Shared Decision Making, Gloria Esoimeme
The Relationship Between The Electronic Health Record Patient Portal And Shared Decision Making, Gloria Esoimeme
Theses and Dissertations
Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative decision-making style where the patient and the physician are involved in the clinical decision-making process. The goal of this dissertation project was to examine the relationship between the patient portal of an electronic health record (EHR) and SDM.
The SDM process has three main components: information sharing, deliberation and decision making. Patients participate in SDM at varying levels: some patients may prefer to share information and deliberate but leave the final decision making to the provider while others prefer to participate in all the three components of SDM. The patient portal of an …