Volume 3, Issue 12

Shared Decision Making in MS: The Why and The How

In this issue:

Shared decision-making — what does it mean in multiple sclerosis? Can it really help providers more fully understand their patients’ concerns? Can it motivate patients to more readily and enthusiastically take ownership of their disease? And most important, how can it be developed in the clinic? 

Join us in this eMultipleSclerosis Review podcast, as we talk about the why and how of shared decision-making in MS with PA Lisa Fox from the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  

Learning objectives:

  • Describe how to achieve shared decision making (SDM) in a patient newly diagnosed with MS.  
  • Explain how to achieve SDM in an established patient showing MS symptom progression. 

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:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

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