Time to Support Extensive Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Psychiatry
Yaara Zisman‐Ilani, Robert M. Roth, Lisa A. Mistler
Abstract
Shared decision making (SDM) is a health communication approach focusing on patient-clinician interactions around treatment decisions, with the goals of improving clinical and functional outcomes and providing personalized care. SDM has been endorsed as the gold standard of patient-clinician interaction in preferencebased care by the National Academy of Medicine in the US and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK. Studies in the last decade of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) demonstrating the feasibility of using SDM, and showing the potential for improved outcomes, support the recent acknowledgment of SDM as an essential practice by the American Psychiatric Association 4 and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.