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shared decision-making

noun

B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A collaborative approach in which clinician and patient reach a management decision together, respecting the patient's values.

This is very much shared decision-making — my job is to lay out the choices, but the final decision rests with you.

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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