Volume 3, Issue 11

Shared Decision-Making and QoL

In this issue:

SDM: shared decision-making between people with MS and their health care providers. The benefits have been shown in improved adherence, greater patient satisfaction, and better quality of life. But what needs to happen to achieve true patient-provider collaboration? What do clinicians and patients need to learn about each other? What are some of the ways they can learn it? 

These are some of the questions Lisa Fox, a physician assistant from the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, answers in this issue of eMultipleSclerosis Review. 

Learning objectives:

  • Describe how shared decision-making can impact quality of life in patients with MS. 
  • Explain how improved communication between health care providers and patients can benefit patient adherence and perception of MS.  

Author:

Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS
Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS

Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Program Directors:

Michael Kornberg, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Pavan Bhargava, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS

Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Length of activity:

1.0 hour Physicians
1.0 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: April 23, 2021
Expiration date: April 22, 2023