Journal of Multiple Sclerosis
ISSN - 2376-0389NLM - 101654564
Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Research Article
Shared Decision-Making and Satisfaction with the Treatment Decision-Making Process in Multiple Sclerosis
Author(s): Emily C. Casady, Brian C. Healy, Tarun Singhal, Jonathan D. Zurawski, Tanuja Chitnis, Howard L. Weiner and Bonnie I. Glanz*
Background: Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, demyelinating disease that requires treatment decisions at multiple points in the disease course. Shared decision-making (SDM) is an approach to treatment decision-making that actively involves the patient and physician in reaching a treatment choice and may be ideally suited to treatment decisions in MS.
Methods: We sent 500 patients with a diagnosis of MS seen at a specialty MS center and participating in the Comprehensive Longitudinal Investigation of Multiple Sclerosis at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital a questionnaire to assess SDM, satisfaction with the treatment decision-making process, and patient and disease characteristics. The questionnaire also asked patients to identify any additional information or decision aids that would have been helpful in treatment decision-making... View More»
