Glyn Elwyn
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Glyn Elwyn is Professor of Primary Care at Cardiff University
Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...
where he leads the [Decision Laboratory], developing and evaluating decision support interventions such as Prosdex http://www.prosdex.com, Amniodex http://www.amniodex.com and Bresdex http://www.bresdex.com, tools that help clinicians achieve shared decision making
Shared decision making
Shared decision-making is an approach where clinicians and patients communicate together using the best available evidence when faced with the task of making decisions, where patients are supported to deliberate about the possible attributes and consequences of options, to arrive at informed...
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He first completed an arts degree in Bangor
Bangor, Gwynedd
Bangor is a city in Gwynedd, north west Wales, and one of the smallest cities in Britain. It is a university city with a population of 13,725 at the 2001 census, not including around 10,000 students at Bangor University. Including nearby Menai Bridge on Anglesey, which does not however form part of...
, North Wales, where he was taught by Bedwyr Lewis Jones
Bedwyr Lewis Jones
Bedwyr Lewis Jones was a Welsh scholar, literary critic and linguist, born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but raised in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn, north Wales. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1956.-Works:...
and Gwyn Thomas
Gwyn Thomas
Gwyn Thomas may refer to:*Gwyn Thomas , Welsh cricketer for Glamorgan CCC, and rugby union footballer for Neath RFC*Gwyn Thomas , 20th century prose writer*Gwyn Thomas , National Poet for Wales 2006...
, before completing a medical degree in Cardiff. After training as a general medical practitioner he set up a single-handed practice in the Docklands, the most deprived area of Cardiff, providing medical care to Somali refugees and the homeless as well as to the inhabitants of Butetown. His interest in practice development led to Masters degree in medical education and after that to research on shared decision making
Shared decision making
Shared decision-making is an approach where clinicians and patients communicate together using the best available evidence when faced with the task of making decisions, where patients are supported to deliberate about the possible attributes and consequences of options, to arrive at informed...
and [evidence-based medicine]. He completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Richard Grol in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
He was appointed Professor of Primary Care at the Swansea Medical School (2002–2005) before being appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University. He is the Research Director of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, and Chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Interdisciplinary Research Group. His research interest is in how to develop and implement shared decision making
Shared decision making
Shared decision-making is an approach where clinicians and patients communicate together using the best available evidence when faced with the task of making decisions, where patients are supported to deliberate about the possible attributes and consequences of options, to arrive at informed...
, making use where possible of decision support interventions (also known as decision aids). In collaboration with Professor Adrian Edwards, he manages a multidisciplinary research group of researchers focused on translating the best available research evidence into clinical practice and by enhancing the patient-clinician encounter (www.decisionlaboratory.com).
Glyn Elwyn has developed the OPTION scale for measuring the extent that that clinicians involve patients in decision making and he co-edits ‘Shared Decision Making in Healthcare: Evidence-based Patient Choice’ 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 2009.
He co-leads the International Patient Decision Aids Collaboration with Annette O’Connor, which has published quality assessment criteria and a measurement instrument for tools to support patient participation in decision making.
Glyn Elwyn collaborated in the development of the Normalization Process Theory
Normalization Process Theory
Normalization process theory is a sociological theory of the implementation, embedding, and integration of new technologies and organizational innovations developed by Carl R. May, Tracey Finch, and others...
and has developed the [International Family Practice Maturity Matrix], a method for assessing and benchmarking the quality of primary care organisations.