Decision Points are designed to guide you through key health decisions, combining medical information with your personal information to make a wise health decision. Click on a link below to learn more about treatment options for your condition or other issues:
- Acne: When to see a doctor
- Adoption as an alternative to infertility treatment
- Artificial hydration and nutrition
- Autopsy: Should I have one done on my loved one?
- Banking blood before surgery
- Birth control
- Breast-feeding
- Cardioversion for atrial fibrillation
- Care of an extremely premature infant
- Chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer
- Clotting factor concentrates for hemophilia
- Complementary medicine
- CPR and mechanical ventilation
- Diabetes and pregnancy
- Discussing your child's bed-wetting with your doctor
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for kidney stones
- Hearing aid
- High risk for breast cancer
- Insulin pump
- Multifetal pregnancy reduction
- Nursing home placement following a stroke
- Nursing home placement for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia
- Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain
- Stopping curative treatment at the end of life
- Stopping kidney dialysis
- Testicular cancer: Stage I seminoma
- Testicular cancer: Stage I nonseminoma
- Treatment options for bed-wetting
- Treatment options for hemorrhoids
- Treatment options for hyperthyroidism
- Treatment options for infertility
- Treatment options for miscarriage
- Treatment options for urinary incontinence in women
- Treatment options for warts or plantar warts
- Trying a trial of labor after cesarean delivery
- Tubal procedure or in vitro fertilization for tubal infertility
- Types of kidney dialysis
- Umbilical cord blood banking
- Uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids
Credits
| Author | Katy E. Magee, MA |
| Author | Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Tracy Landauer |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Martin Gabica, MD - Family Medicine |
| Last Updated | May 19, 2006 |
Author:Katy E. Magee, MA
Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC
Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC
Last Updated: 05/19/2006
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