Shared Decision Making and Use of Decision Aids for Localized Prostate Cancer

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 Supported by Patient Decision Aids for Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment

El cáncer de próstata es un problema importante para los hombres mayores en países desarrollados. Las decisiones acerca del screening y tratamiento del cáncer de próstata se caracterizan por múltiples opciones razonables que parecen “arriesgadas”, donde las preferencias personales de los pacientes son importantes. Se va reconociendo de modo creciente la toma de decisión compartida entre el paci...

The Conflicts of Decision-making for Localized Prostate Cancer

Shared decision making, decision aids, and risk communication.

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...