Can guidelines be reformulated to account for how doctors actually use information?

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Recorded01 Jul 2016

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Guidelines usually assume a rational comprehensive decision model in which all values, means, and ends are known and considered. In clinical encounters, however, patients and doctors most often follow “the science of muddling through. Given that clinical knowledge does not follow the narrow rationality of “if-then” algorithms contained in guidelines, alternatives are desperately needed. Glyn Elwyn, professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, joins us to discuss what we know about how doctors and patients use evidence, and what the alternative to guidelines could look like. Read the full analysis: http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i3200

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