Shared Decision-Making

CHICAGO — Chemoimmunotherapy and immunotherapy alone conferred comparable benefit as first-line therapy for most patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and high PD-L1 expression, results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting showed.

NEW ORLEANS — Providers should take a shared decision-making approach when creating a nutrition plan for people with diabetes, according to a speaker at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions.

SAN DIEGO — Black patients with inflammatory bowel disease were more likely to use older therapies and face continued barriers to effective care, according to survey results presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

When it comes to CV health and outcomes, data show that a person’s ZIP code is often more predictive than a diagnostic code, correlating with everything from access to care and medications to mortality after hospital admission.

PHOENIX —Use of a mobile app that facilitates shared decision-making in asthma treatment was associated with high patient satisfaction, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

Utilizing decision aids before discussing treatment options gives patients with chronic kidney disease hope and improves patients’ motivation to treat the disease, according to a speaker at the virtual Annual Dialysis Conference.

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Lucille Hughes, DNP, MSN/ED, CDCES, BC-ADM, FADCES, about the benefits of collaborating with people with diabetes in their own self-management of the disease.

Clinicians reported striving to minimize treatment burden and working with children with chronic kidney disease and their parents to support shared decision-making, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a draft recommendation encouraging clinicians to use shared decision-making when considering behavioral counseling to promote healthy diet and physical activity for CVD prevention.

This year’s American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting featured a variety of studies, lectures and discussions on important topics and trends in the field.