Bmc Med Inform Decis
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Bmc Med Inform Decis · Aug 2014
ReviewPublication trends of shared decision making in 15 high impact medical journals: a full-text review with bibliometric analysis.
Shared Decision Making (SDM) is increasingly advocated as a model for medical decision making. However, there is still low use of SDM in clinical practice. High impact factor journals might represent an efficient way for its dissemination. We aimed to identify and characterize publication trends of SDM in 15 high impact medical journals. ⋯ This review in full-text showed that SDM publications increased exponentially in major medical journals from 1996 to 2011. This growth might reflect an increased dissemination of the SDM concept to the medical community.