The Importance of Shared Decision-making
Shared decision-making is a collaborative process in which healthcare professionals and patients work together to make decisions about the patient's treatment. This approach is particularly ...
An introduction to… Sam
“You don’t feel so alone when you know you’re not the only one struggling with steroid side effects.” More than 50 million people are on long-term glucocorticoid treatment and more than 40% of the ...
Shared Decision-making’s Critical Role in Preventing Opportunistic Infections
A recent review has highlighted the importance of shared decision-making as a key pillar in the prevention of acute infection in patients treated with long-term steroids. Glucocorticoids are ...
In Conversation With… Glenn Philips, PhD
“We're using the same tools that demonstrate the benefit of our drugs to show that the long-term cost of steroids has been vastly underestimated.” Glenn Philips, PhD is the Vice President of Health ...
Quantifying the Risk-Benefit Ratio of Steroids in Myasthenia Gravis
A pioneering analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data from the Optum® EHR database has shown that it is finally possible to quantify the risk-to-benefit ratio of prescribing glucocorticoids, ...
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