Patient education and counseling
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To describe the development and refinement of a scheme, detail of essential elements and participants in shared decision making (DEEP-SDM), for coding shared decision making (SDM) while reporting on the characteristics of decisions in a sample of patients with metastatic breast cancer. ⋯ A better understanding of how decisions unfold in the medical encounter can help inform the relationship of SDM to patient-reported outcomes.
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The aim was to examine the role of talking (or remaining silent) in the physician's experience of coping with medical error. ⋯ This work may inform institutional policies, practices, and training to help physicians effectively prepare for and cope with medical error.