Table 1.
Number of SDM publications in 15 journals in 1996–2011*
| Journal | Total no publications | No SDM publications | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Medical Journal |
61 903 |
273 |
0.44 |
| Journal of General Internal Medicine |
4267 |
213 |
4.99 |
| Journal of the American Medical Association |
32 868 |
206 |
0.63 |
| Annals of Internal Medicine |
11 950 |
117 |
0.98 |
| Archives of Internal Medicine |
8388 |
105 |
1.25 |
| American Journal of Preventive Medicine** |
3442 |
82 |
2.38 |
| Canadian Medical Association Journal |
18 686 |
71 |
0.38 |
| Journal of Pain and Symptom Management |
3814 |
48 |
1.26 |
| The New England Journal of Medicine |
19 778 |
48 |
0.24 |
| The Lancet |
45 325 |
41 |
0.09 |
| Preventive Medicine |
3368 |
29 |
0.86 |
| The American Journal of Medicine |
6780 |
28 |
0.41 |
| Mayo Clinic Proceedings |
4810 |
19 |
0.40 |
| Journal of Internal Medicine |
2544 |
3 |
0.12 |
| Annals of Medicine |
1256 |
2 |
0.16 |
| Overall (15 journals) | 229 179 | 1285 | 0.56 |
Abbreviations [for all tables]:SDM Shared Decision Making, SDM publications publications of any type containing in their full text the phrase “shared decision making” or five other variants.
*Journals ordered by absolute number of SDM publications.
**Publications not available for years 1996–1997 for technical reasons due to a change of publisher in 1998.