Global Heart Hub’s Heart Valve Shared Decision-Making Published in Health Research Policy and Systems
Global Heart Hub’s Heart Valve Shared Decision-Making Published in Health Research Policy and Systems
Global Heart Hub is delighted to share that “A path forward for the implementation of shared decision-making in valvular heart disease: Global joint recommendations from clinicians, patients and researchers” has been published in Health Research Policy and Systems. The journal Health Research Policy and Systems, published by BioMed Central (BMC) is in collaboration with the World Health Organization and has an international approach to health systems and policy research. Read the article here.
The BMC article is based on Global Heart Hub’s shared decision-making roadmap, Paving the way: a roadmap to the successful implementation of shared decision-making in heart valve disease, created in collaboration with 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, including heart valve disease patients and advocates, along with members of the heart team and researchers.
Shared decision-making plays an integral role in improving peoples’ experience of care and their quality of life. Yet too often, people living with heart valve disease are still not being optimally involved in conversations about their treatment options and preferences.
Action taken now at both international and local level will improve the implementation of shared decision-making in heart valve disease. “Ensuring that shared decision-making is available to every person living with heart valve disease is vital for good healthcare and improved patient experience,” says lead author Dr Sandra Lauck, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, St Paul’s Hospital Professorship in Cardiovascular Nursing; Clinician Scientist, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; Co-chair of this initiative; and member of Global Heart Hub’s Clinical and Specialist Advisory Panel.
Special thank you to the article authors: Dr Sandra Lauck, Prof Martha Gulati, Dr Krystina Lewis, Dr Nicola Straiton, Prof Hanneke Takkenberg, Dr Peyman Sardari Nia, Sandra McGonigle, Karen Padilla, Ellen Ross, Prof Hélène Eltchaninoff and Prof Bernard Prendergast.
