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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S1
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Volume 13 Supplement 3
Articles from the Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012: Supporting informed decision making when clinical evidence and conventional wisdom collide
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Edited by Robert J Volk, Richard Street Jr, Quentin W Smith and Michael C Fordis
The publication of this supplement was funded by Eisenberg Center contract number HHSA 290-2008-10015-C. Articles have undergone the journal's standard review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.
Articles from the Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012: Supporting informed decision making when clinical evidence and conventional wisdom collide. Go to conference site.
Rockville, MD, USA
13 September 2012
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Communicating information about “what not to do” to consumers
Americans devote more resources to health care than any other developed country, and yet they have worse health outcomes and less access. This creates a perfect set of opportunities for Consumer Reports, a nonpro...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S2
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Addressing tensions when popular media and evidence-based care collide
Health care news stories have the potential to inform and educate news consumers and health-care consumers about the tradeoffs involved in health-care decisions about treatments, tests, products, and procedure...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S3
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Against conventional wisdom: when the public, the media, and medical practice collide
In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released new mammography screening guidelines that sparked a torrent of criticism. The subsequent conflict was significant and pitted the Task Force against oth...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S4
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Media, messages, and medication: strategies to reconcile what patients hear, what they want, and what they need from medications
Over the past 30 years, patients’ options for accessing information about prescription drugs have expanded dramatically. In this narrative review, we address four questions: (1) What information sources are pa...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S5
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Incorporating patient and family preferences into evidence-based medicine
Clinicians are encouraged to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM) as well as patient-centered medicine. At times, these paradigms seem to be mutually exclusive and difficult to reconcile. It can become even ...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S6
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Making decisions in a complex information environment: evidential preference and information we trust
Informed decision making requires that those individuals making health and health-care decisions understand the advantages and disadvantages associated with particular health options. Research and theory sugge...
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2013 13(Suppl 3):S7
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