Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace quickens

Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace quickens

Thomas Agoritsas research fellow 1 , Anja Fog Heen doctoral candidate 3 , Linn Brandt doctoral candidate, Pablo Alonso-Coello associate researcher , Annette Kristiansen doctoral candidate, Elie A Akl associate professor 1 , Ignacio Neumann assistant professor 1 , Kari AO Tikkinen adjunct professor 1 , Trudy van der Weijden professor , Glyn Elwyn professor , Victor M Montori professor , Gordon H...

Assessing Practitioners’ and Patients’ Needs Regarding Shared Decision-Making and Decision Aids

       Background: As part of the process of developing a decision aid for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) according to the Ottawa Decision Support Framework, we were interested in the level of ‘decisional conflict’ of hand surgeons and patients with CTS. This study addresses the null hypothesis that there is no difference between surgeon and patient decisional conflict with respect to test and tr...

Shared decision making, decision aids, and risk communication.

Using patient decision aids to promote evidence-based decision making.

Evidence-based medicine integrates clinical experience with patients’ values and the best available evidence. In the past, clinicians took responsibility not only for being well informed about the benefits and harms of medical options but also for judging their value in the best interests of the patients. More recently, a shared decision making approach has been advocated in which patients are ...

Shared decision making and patient decision aids in dermatology.

Shared decision making combines individual patient interests and values with clinical best evidence under the guiding principle of patient autonomy. Patient decision aids can support shared decision making and facilitate decisions that have multiple options with varying outcomes for which patients may attribute different values. Given the variable psychosocial impact of skin disease on individu...