NIH R01 · 2025
PROJECT SUMMARY Prostate cancer is a highly prevalent disease requiring complex decision making due to its multiple treatment options, each with tradeoffs of survival and sexual and urinary function. As a result, shared decision making (SDM)—a decision-making process where physicians collaborate with patients to select the option that best matches their values and preferences—is the standard of care for treatment decision making. For SDM to be effective, physicians must clearly communicate risks and rewards of treatment options, and patients must retain that information so that they can weigh these tradeoffs when making a treatment decision. Yet, in pilot work, we found that physicians…
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