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Mapping search terms to review goals is essential
  1. Friedemann Geiger1,2,
  2. Marla L Clayman3,4,
  3. Isabelle Scholl5,
  4. Katrin Liethmann6,7,8,
  5. Jürgen Kasper9
  1. 1Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
  2. 2Medical School Hamburg, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
  3. 3American Institutes for Research, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  4. 4Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
  5. 5Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  6. 6Unit of Health Sciences and Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  7. 7Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
  8. 8Department of Neurology, Institute of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  9. 9Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
  1. Correspondence to Professor Dr Friedemann Geiger, Klinik für Allgemeine Pädiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Schwanenweg 20, Kiel D-24105, Germany; f.geiger{at}uksh.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004994

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    • Competing interests All authors have published at least one of the instruments that were omitted in this review. Furthermore, IS published a systematic review of measures that assess shared decision-making.2

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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