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Overview

Glyn Elwyn is affiliated with the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in the United States. The primary fields of study in their research include Health Professions and Medicine, with a substantial focus on General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work also encompasses domains such as Economics and Econometrics, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics cover areas related to patient interaction and healthcare quality. These include Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Healthcare Systems and Technology, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Glyn Elwyn has contributed extensively to several publication venues. Most frequently, their work appears in:

  • Patient Education and Counseling
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ evidence-based medicine
  • BMJ Open
  • PLoS ONE

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Catherine Saunders, Marie-Anne Durand, Peter Scalia, Renata W. Yen, and Rachel C Forcino.

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Glyn Elwyn include:

  • "Implications for Telehealth in a Postpandemic Future" (2020), published in JAMA
  • "Practical thematic analysis: a guide for multidisciplinary health services research teams engaging in qualitative analysis" (2023), published in BMJ
  • "Using pictures to convey health information: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects on patient and consumer health behaviors and outcomes" (2020), published in Patient Education and Counseling
  • "Shared decision making: What is the work?" (2020), published in Patient Education and Counseling
  • "Understanding unwarranted variation in clinical practice: a focus on network effects, reflective medicine and learning health systems" (2020), published in International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Best Publications

  • Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice

    Glyn Elwyn;Glyn Elwyn;Dominick Frosch;Dominick Frosch;Richard Thomson;Natalie J. Joseph-Williams

  • Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process

    Glyn Elwyn;Annette O'Connor;Dawn Stacey;Robert Volk

  • Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory

    Carl R May;Frances Mair;Tracy Finch;Anne E. MacFarlane

  • Knowledge is not power for patients: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patient-reported barriers and facilitators to shared decision making

    Natalie Joseph-Williams;Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards

  • Shared decision making: really putting patients at the centre of healthcare

    A M Stiggelbout;T Van der Weijden;M P T De Wit;D Frosch

  • Implementing shared decision making in the NHS

    Glyn Elwyn;Steve Laitner;Angela Coulter;Emma Walker

  • Shared decision making and the concept of equipoise: the competences of involving patients in healthcare choices.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;Paul Richard Kinnersley;Richard Grol

  • A three-talk model for shared decision making: multistage consultation process

    Glyn Elwyn;Marie Anne Durand;Julia Song;Johanna Aarts

  • Explaining risks: turning numerical data into meaningful pictures

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn;Al Mulley

  • Shared decision-making in primary care: the neglected second half of the consultation.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;Paul Richard Kinnersley

  • Stop the silent misdiagnosis: patients’ preferences matter

    Albert G Mulley;Chris Trimble;Glyn Elwyn

  • Interventions for improving the adoption of shared decision making by healthcare professionals

    Dawn Stacey;Stéphane Turcotte;Marie-Joëlle Cossi

  • Shared decision making: developing the OPTION scale for measuring patient involvement.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;M. Wensing;Kerenza Hood

  • Presenting risk information--a review of the effects of "framing" and other manipulations on patient outcomes.

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn;Judith Covey;Elaine Matthews

  • Shared decision-making in health care : achieving evidence-based patient choice

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn

  • Authoritarian Physicians And Patients’ Fear Of Being Labeled ‘Difficult’ Among Key Obstacles To Shared Decision Making

    Dominick L. Frosch;Suepattra G. May;Katharine A.S. Rendle;Caroline Tietbohl

  • The OPTION scale: measuring the extent that clinicians involve patients in decision-making tasks.

    Glyn Elwyn;Hayley Hutchings;Adrian Edwards;Frances Rapport

  • Assessments of the extent to which health‐care providers involve patients in decision making: a systematic review of studies using the OPTION instrument

    Nicolas Couët;Sophie Desroches;Sophie Desroches;Hubert Robitaille;Hugues Vaillancourt

  • Do interventions designed to support shared decision-making reduce health inequalities? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marie-Anne Durand;Lewis Carpenter;Hayley Dolan;Paulina Bravo

  • Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals

    Rhéda Adekpedjou;Dawn Stacey;Stéphane Turcotte

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Edwards
Adrian Edwards Cardiff University
Richard Grol
Richard Grol Radboud University
Michel Wensing
Michel Wensing Heidelberg University
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood Cardiff University
Robert G. Newcombe
Robert G. Newcombe Cardiff University
Kerenza Hood
Kerenza Hood Cardiff University
Paul K. J. Han
Paul K. J. Han Maine Medical Center
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg

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