… Samuel Finnikin was supported in this project by National Institute for Health and Care …
Samuel Finnikin is funded through an In-Practice Fellowship awarded by the National Institute for …

Background Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to assess
impact of disease and treatment on quality of life and symptoms; however, their use in …

Background The National Early Warning Scores (NEWS) is used in various healthcare
settings to augment clinical decision making, and there is growing interest in its application in …

Shared decision making has been on the policy agenda in the UK for at least twelve years,
but it lacked a comprehensive approach to delivery. That has changed over the past five years…

China's healthcare system has undergone extensive changes over recent years and the
most recent reforms are designed to shift the emphasis away from hospital based services …

Decision making is a complex business, and the decision to refer a patient is often not
straightforward. No score can communicate the gut feeling of an experienced clinician. The risk of …

Background The recently announced long-term plan for the NHS is based on a model of
person-centred care, which relies on the sustained engagement of patients, shared decision …

… Sam Finnikin, general practitioner1, … Sam Finnikin and colleagues argue that guidelines
should focus less on population level risk thresholds and more on shared decision making …

As evidence-based medicine (EBM) emerged as the cornerstone of clinical medicine in recent
decades, it became clear that an associated change in medical education was required to …

… Samuel Finnikin was funded as an academic clinical fellow for the duration of this research
by Primary Care Research Trust and Health Education West Midlands. Kate Jolly is part-…