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At the core of many of the quality improvement initiatives spearheaded by the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) was an assumption that medical communication and decision-making must be improved in order to achieve true population benefits from evidence-based medicine.

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Hesse, B.W. (2016). Decision Architectures. In: Diefenbach, M., Miller-Halegoua, S., Bowen, D. (eds) Handbook of Health Decision Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3486-7_2

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