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Call for Papers - Patient Involvement and Shared Decision Making

Guest Editors:
Gaetano Gallo: La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Rosanne Janssens: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023


BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making welcomes articles that offer insights into patient preferences and participation, shared decision-making tools and methods, and patient-reported outcomes measures. Articles should ideally offer methodological learnings and proposed ways for systematically integrating preference studies in medical research and practice, complementing existing methods and fostering targeted multi-stakeholder discussions and internationally accepted recommendations and guidelines.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Gaetano Gallo: La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Gaetano Gallo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgical Sciences at “La Sapienza” University of Roma, Roma, Italy.  He has a clinical and academic interest in Proctology (Haemorrhoidal Disease, Perianal and Rectovaginal Fistulas, Rectal Prolapse), Functional and Pelvic Floor Disorders, IBD, and Microbiome and Colorectal Cancer. He has written more than 200 articles, including several national and international guidelines on colorectal diseases (Haemorrhoidal Disease, Rectal Prolapse, Appendicitis).  He is an Executive Member of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) and is currently a member of the European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) Guidelines and Cohort Studies Committees. He is a member of several Editorial Boards such as Surgery, Colorectal Disease, Techniques in Coloproctology, and several Journals in the BMC Series.


Rosanne Janssens: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Rosanne Janssens is a post-doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven in Belgium, in the Regulatory Sciences & Pharmaco-Economics research unit. Her research interests and activities are focused on investigating policy and multi-stakeholder challenges and solutions towards optimizing drug development, regulatory, and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) decision-making frameworks spanning across the medicinal product life cycle.  During her PhD, she derived methodological and policy-related recommendations regarding the design, conduct, and use of patient preference studies for informing drug development, regulatory, and HTA decisions.  Rosanne holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences (KU Leuven, 2016, summa cum laude) with a specialization in Management and Communication. She (co-)wrote 15 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and gave 12 presentations at international conferences (abstracts, posters, and presentations). Rosanne obtained the following certificates from university-led courses on methodological and policy-related topics in drug development and evaluation: Strategic Management in the Pharma Sector (B-KUL-K09I0A, 80%); Good Clinical Practice Certificate; Translational Medicine (5 ECTS, I3h-ULB), 95%.

 



About the collection

Stakeholders involved in drug development, evaluation, and clinical use are presently calling for evidence-based insights into ways for assessing and including patients’ preferences in a meaningful and systematic manner. The same applies to other medical interventions, such as medical devices, tools and techniques, the most various procedures from surgery and drug treatment to patient psychological support. A wide-spread implementation of robustly designed patient involvement methods in all steps of clinical processes will amplify patients’ unique voices.

 This collection welcomes articles that offer insights into patient preferences and participation, shared decision-making tools and methods, and patient-reported outcomes measures.

 Articles should ideally offer methodological learnings and proposed ways for systematically integrating preference studies in medical research and practice, complementing existing methods and fostering targeted multi-stakeholder discussions and internationally accepted recommendations and guidelines.

  1. Clinical decision aids may support shared decision-making for screening mammography. To inform shared decision-making between patients and their providers, this study examines how patterns of using an EHR-inte...

    Authors: Yan Liu, Rachel Kornfield, Ellie Fan Yang, Elizabeth Burnside, Jon Keevil and Dhavan V. Shah
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 22:323

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Patient Involvement and Shared Decision Making" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.