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Sepucha KR, Fowler FJ, Mulley AG. Policy support for patient-centered care: the need for measurable improvements in decision quality. Health Aff web exclusive, 7 October 2004.

Fowler FJ. The role of patient preferences in medical care. Distinguished lecture series, 1994-1995, November 1994. Sponsored by: Office of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Blumenthal D. Decision, decisions: Why the quality of medical decisions matters. Health Aff web exclusive, 7 October 2004.

O'Connor AM, Stacey D, Entwistle V, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner D, Holmes-Rovner M, Tait V, Tetroe J, Fiset V, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews 2003(2):CD001431.

Arora NK, McHorney CA. Patient preferences for medical decision making: Who really wants to participate? Med Care 2000;38(3):335-41.

Barratt A, Trevena L, Davey HM, McCaffery K. Use of decision aids to support informed choices about screening. BMJ 2004;329:507-10.

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Mulley AG. Improving the quality of decision making. J Clin Outcomes Manag 1995;2:9-10.

O'Connor AM, Légaré F, Stacey D. Risk communication in practice: The contribution of decision aids. BMJ 2003;327:736-40.

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Mort EA. Clinical decision-making in the face of scientific uncertainty: Hormone replacement therapy as an example. J Fam Pract 1996;42:147-51.

Kaplan SH, Greenfield S, Gandek B, Rogers WH, Ware JE, Jr. Characteristics of physicians with participatory decision-making styles. Ann Int Med 1996;124(5):497-504.

McNutt RA. Shared medical decision making: problems, process, progress. JAMA 2004;292(20):2516-8.

Molenaar S, Sprangers MA, Postma-Schuit FC, Rutgers EJ, Noorlander J, Hendriks J, de Haes HC. Feasibility and effects of decision aids. Med Dec Making 2000;20(1):112-27.

O'Connor AM, Rostom A, Fiset V, Tetroe J, Entwistle V, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Holmes-Rovner M, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: Systematic review. BMJ 1999;319:731-4.

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Elwyn G, Edwards A, Gwyn R, Grol R. Towards a feasible model for shared decision making: Focus group study with general practice registrars. BMJ 1999;319(7212):753-6.

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Whitney SN. A new model of medical decisions: Exploring the limits of shared decision making. Med Decis Making 2003;23(4):275-80.

Whitney SN, McGuire AL, McCullough LB. A typology of shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent. Ann Intern Med 2004;140(1):54-9.

Diem SJ. How and when should physicians discuss clinical decisions with patients? J Gen Intern Med 1997;12(6):397-8.

Braddock CH 3rd, Edwards KA, Hasenberg NM, Laidley TL, Levinson W. Informed decision making in outpatient practice: Time to get back to basics. JAMA 1999;282(24):2313-20.

Braddock CH 3rd, Fihn SD, Levinson W, Jonsen AR, Pearlman RA. How doctors and patients discuss routine clinical decisions. Informed decision making in the outpatient setting. J Gen Intern Med 1997;12(6):339-45.

Flood AB, Wennberg JE, Nease RF Jr, Fowler FJ Jr, Ding J, Hynes LM. The importance of patient preference in the decision to screen for prostate cancer. Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team. J Gen Intern Med 1996;11(6):342-9.

Braddock CH 3rd, Micek MA, Fryer-Edwards K, Levinson W. Factors that predict better informed consent. J Clin Ethics 2002;13(4):344-52.

Mulley AG, Eagle KA. What is inappropriate care? JAMA 1988;60:540-1.

Wennberg JE, Barnes BA, Zubkoff M. Professional uncertainty and the problem of supplier-induced demand. Soc Sci Med 1982;16:811-42.

Kemper, DW. The business dases for information therapy. Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Gwinn BR, Seidman, J. The Ix evidence base: Using information therapy to cross the quality chasm. Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Seidman J, Steinwachs D, Rubin HR. The mysterious maze of the world wide web: What makes internet health information high quality? Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Seidman J. The arrival of 21st-century health care: Group Health Cooperative reengineers its delivery system around information therapy and patient-centered informatics. Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Seidman J, O'Kane ME. Turning on the light: Illuminating the care experience through a new consumer paradigm for quality measurement. Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Seidman J, Wallace P. Improving population care and disease management using Ix principles. Available upon request at http://www.informationtherapy.org/rs_white_papers.html.

Today, primary care practitioners are providing more complex care in an increasingly busy environment. This severely limits their time and opportunity to educate patients about their health and chronic illnesses, as well as discuss other issues like prevention and wellness measures - a situation that is frustrating to both practitioners and patients alike.