The principles of shared decision making are well documented but there is a lack of guidance
about how to accomplish the approach in routine clinical practice. Our aim here is to …

Chronic neuropathic pain, caused by lesions in the peripheral or central nervous system,
comes in many forms. We describe current approaches to the diagnosis and assessment of …

Background Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single most common cause of death globally.
However, with falling CHD mortality rates, an increasing number of people live with CHD …

… Stobbart senior research associate3, David Tomson executive partner and freelance
consultant in patient centred care4 4, Sheila Macphail consultant in obstetrics and fetal …

… Sites A, C, and D allowed professionals to refer to different steps based on their clinical
assessment; site B had a single point of entry (with a few exceptions) with the intention that all …

Germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer high risks of breast and ovarian cancer,
but the average magnitude of these risks is uncertain and may depend on the context. …

The third catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the EGRET telescope on
the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory includes data from 1991 April 22 to 1995 October 3 (…

… and vitamin D reduced the … D reduced the risk of hip and other non-spine fractures by
about 30% among elderly women in nursing homes, many of whom had deficiency of vitamin D …

Breast cancer exhibits familial aggregation, consistent with variation in genetic susceptibility
to the disease. Known susceptibility genes account for less than 25% of the familial risk of …

… Our greatest debts are to Michael Doyle and Carol Thompson, whose support—personal …
values ... perhaps even [is] force[d] to be objective—not to express his preferences or personal …