Shared decision making honors patient autonomy, particularly for preference-sensitive care decisions. Shared decision making can be challenging, however, when patients have impaired decision-making capacity. Here, after presenting an illustrative case example, this paper proposes a capacity-adjusted “sliding scale” approach to shared decision making.
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Lahey, T., & Elwyn, G. (2020, May 1). Sliding-Scale shared decision making for patients with reduced capacity. AMA Journal of Ethics. American Medical Association. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2020.358
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