Research in the Decision Sciences for Global Business: Best Papers from the 2013 Annual Conference

13. Shared Decision Making in Healthcare: Is It Really Ideal?

—Beáta Kincsesné Vajda, University of Szeged

Abstract

Shared decision making has an extended literature, and is considered to be an appropriate approach to doctor-patient communication and decision making. Given the magnitude of the importance of how decisions are made and how patients’ health behaviors are formed (affecting patient outcomes and, therefore, expenditures in healthcare systems—such as the Hungarian one), improvement in health care and health-related decision making may have considerable benefits for both patients and healthcare systems.

Therefore, it is worth exploring the details of the concepts of medical decision-making styles, and trying to use it as a reference ...