A Clinical Focus on Shared Decision Making in Clinical Practice When Providing Dysarthria and Dysphagia Services to Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Cara Donohue, Bridget Perry, Kendrea L Focht Garand
PMID 41058966WHAT IT FOUND
This paper outlines a step-by-step framework for shared decision making in ALS care, illustrated by a fictional case.
It describes how to present options for voice banking and feeding tubes but reports no data on whether this approach improves patient outcomes or satisfaction.
What this paper is
This is a clinical commentary and practice guide describing a shared decision-making framework for speech-language pathologists managing dysarthria and dysphagia in ALS. It includes a fictional case study to illustrate the process, but it reports no patients, no outcomes, and no evidence that the framework changes clinical results. There is no finding here to act on.