Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 79-86 , January 2008

Measuring shared decision making in the consultation: A comparison of the OPTION and Informed Decision Making instruments

  • Marjorie C. Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1225 386787; fax: +44 1225 386114.
    • ,
  • Tim J. Peters

      Affiliations

    • Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Received 15 May 2007 ,Revised 13 July 2007 ,Accepted 2 September 2007.

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PII: S0738-3991(07)00341-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2007.09.001

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 70, Issue 1 , Pages 79-86 , January 2008

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