Volume 13 Supplement 3
Articles from the Eisenberg Center Conference Series 2012: Supporting informed decision making when clinical evidence and conventional wisdom collide
Proceedings
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
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Rockville, MD, USA13 September 2012
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Authors: Robert J Volk, Richard Street Jr., Quentin Smith and Michael Fordis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
