Hahlweg, Pola http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-8594
Witzel, Isabell
Müller, Volkmar
Elwyn, Glyn
Durand, Marie-Anne
Scholl, Isabelle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7639-0880
Funding for this research was provided by:
research funding through faculty resources of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (NWF 15_10)
Article History
Received: 4 July 2018
Accepted: 18 December 2018
First Online: 16 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: PH’s institution received the grant from research funding through faculty resources of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (German: Forschungsförderfonds der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Hamburg, FFM) for the study at hand (cp. funding). PH gave one scientific presentation on shared decision-making during a lunch symposium, for which she received compensation and travel compensation from GlaxoSmithKline GmbH in 2018. IW and VM declare no conflicts of interest. GE is the director of &think LLC which owns the registered trademark for Option Grid™ patient decision aids. GE currently provides consultancy in the domain of shared decision-making and patient decision aids to Access Community Health Network, Chicago (Federally Qualified Medical Centers) and EBSCO Health Option Grid™ patient decision aids. In the past, GE was a consultant to Emmi Solutions LLC (development of Option Grid™ DAs), to the National Quality Forum (certification of decision support tools), to the Washington State Health Department (certification of decision support tools), and to SciMentum LLC, Amsterdam (workshops for SDM). GE receives royalties from Oxford University Press and Radcliff Press, because he edited and published books that provide royalties on sales by the publishers. The books include Shared Decision Making (Oxford University Press) and Groups. GE initiated the Option Grid Collaborative, tools that are hosted on a website managed by Dartmouth College (ExternalRef removed). Existing Option Grids hosted at this website are freely available until the tools have expired. He owns copyright in measures of SDM and care integration, namely CollaboRATE, IntegRATE, and Observer OPTION. These measures are freely available for use. MAD has contributed to the development of Option Grid™ patient decision aids, which are licensed to EBSCO Health. She receives consulting income from EBSCO Health, and may receive royalties in the future. MAD is a consultant to ACCESS Community Health Network. MAD is one of the founding members of the Option Grid Collaborative. IS’s institution received the grant from research funding through faculty resources of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (German: Forschungsförderfonds der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Hamburg, FFM) for the study at hand (cp. funding). IS conducted one physician training in shared decision-making for which she received travel compensation from Mundipharma GmbH in 2015.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association Hamburg (Germany). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.