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Table 1 Number of SDM publications in 15 journals in 1996–2011*

From: Publication trends of shared decision making in 15 high impact medical journals: a full-text review with bibliometric analysis

Journal

Total no publications

No SDM publications

%

British Medical Journal

61 903

273

0.44

Journal of General Internal Medicine

4267

213

4.99

Journal of the American Medical Association

32 868

206

0.63

Annals of Internal Medicine

11 950

117

0.98

Archives of Internal Medicine

8388

105

1.25

American Journal of Preventive Medicine**

3442

82

2.38

Canadian Medical Association Journal

18 686

71

0.38

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

3814

48

1.26

The New England Journal of Medicine

19 778

48

0.24

The Lancet

45 325

41

0.09

Preventive Medicine

3368

29

0.86

The American Journal of Medicine

6780

28

0.41

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

4810

19

0.40

Journal of Internal Medicine

2544

3

0.12

Annals of Medicine

1256

2

0.16

Overall (15 journals)

229 179

1285

0.56

  1. Abbreviations [for all tables]: SDM Shared Decision Making, SDM publications publications of any type containing in their full text the phrase “shared decision making” or five other variants.
  2. *Journals ordered by absolute number of SDM publications.
  3. **Publications not available for years 1996–1997 for technical reasons due to a change of publisher in 1998.