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To choose or not? The value of discrete-choice experiments in rheumatology

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Do you inform patients about risks and chances of success associated with different choices when treatment needs to be changed? This approach takes time and requires patient health literacy. Results from a discrete-choice experiment in scleroderma lung disease add to the debate on shared decision-making.

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Pope, J.E. To choose or not? The value of discrete-choice experiments in rheumatology. Nat Rev Rheumatol 18, 433–434 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-022-00799-z

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