TY - JOUR T1 - Shared decision making for elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 473 LP - 477 DO - 10.7861/clinmed.2019-0352 VL - 19 IS - 6 AU - Michael Swart AU - Robert McCarthy Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/19/6/473.abstract N2 - Decisions on how and when to treat an abdominal aortic aneurysm involve a number of clinicians; interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons assess the technical ability to repair the aneurysm. Patients’ fitness and past medical history is assessed to estimate their short- and long-term survival with or without surgery. Most importantly the patients’ personal preference for treatment must be identified. Getting a patient to share what matters most to them requires shared decision making. ER -