Articles from the Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012: Supporting informed decision making when clinical evidence and conventional wisdom collide

Supporting informed decision making when clinical evidence and conventional wisdom collide: papers developed from the Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012

Authors: Robert J Volk, Richard Street Jr., Quentin Smith and Michael Fordis

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...

Authors: John S Santa

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...

Authors: Gary Schwitzer

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...

Authors: Jakob D Jensen, Melinda Krakow, Kevin K John and Miao Liu

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...

Authors: Richard L Kravitz and Robert A Bell

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 ...

Authors: Laura A Siminoff

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...

Authors: Vetta L Sanders Thompson