preference sensitive care
Defined in 1 place of the United States Code.
The term “preference sensitive care” means medical care for which the clinical evidence does not clearly support one treatment option such that the appropriate course of treatment depends on the values of the patient or the preferences of the patient, caregivers or authorized representatives regarding the benefits, harms and scientific evidence for each treatment option, the 4 use of such care should depend on the informed patient choice among clinically appropriate treatment options.
Source
- 2010–present42 U.S.C. § 299b-36The Public Health and Welfare · Program to facilitate shared decisionmaking · in this section