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The Final Stretch? How Shared Decision Making Extends Health Technology Assessment to Meet Patient Preference

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Eric Topol, the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, calls our attention to a quote from Voltaire who wrote, “doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure disease of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing”. Topol uses this quote, seemingly, to challenge us to rethink our assumptions about the practice of medicine and how little it reflects what actually matters most to patients.

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    Stuart W. Grande & Glyn Elwyn

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  1. Spanish Association for Healthcare Technology,Evaluation (AEETS), Director, Gaspar Casal FoundationPresident, Madrid, Spain

    Juan E. del Llano-Señarís

  2. Health Services and Policy Research, Balearic Health Service, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Carlos Campillo-Artero

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Grande, S.W., Elwyn, G. (2015). The Final Stretch? How Shared Decision Making Extends Health Technology Assessment to Meet Patient Preference. In: del Llano-Señarís, J., Campillo-Artero, C. (eds) Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15004-8_8

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