Several trials have employed anxiety measures to assess decision aid effectiveness. This study employed a systematic review method to integrate their findings. The affective impact of decision aids and the appropriateness of anxiety as a measure of decision aid effectiveness are explored. From 11,361 citations generated from searching electronic databases and journals, 26 randomised controlled ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature regarding the effects of menopausal symptom management decision aids. METHODS Using pre-designated inclusion and exclusion criteria, relevant articles were located using the PubMed.gov online search engine and reviewing reference lists of relevant articles. Full-text, English-language, peer-reviewed articles relevant to testing decision aids i...

An increasing number ofpatient decision aids are being developed to assist patients in making personalized choices among health care options, but little is known about the current use of and potential for personalization of web-based decision aids. The purpose of this study is to estimate the potential for personalization of patient decision aids. We developed a coding scheme for personalizatio...

OBJECTIVES To explore stakeholders' perceptions of decision aids designed to support the informed consent decision-making process for randomised controlled trials. DESIGN Qualitative semistructured interviews. Participants were provided with prototype trial decision aids in advance to stimulate discussion. Interviews were analysed using an established interpretive approach. PARTICIPANTS 23 ...

Abstract Human decision-making is plagued by many systematic errors. Many of these errors can be avoided providing decision aids that guide decision-makers to attend the important information and integrate it according a rational strategy. Designing such used tedious manual process. Advances in cognitive science might make possible automate this process future. We recently introduced machine le...

BACKGROUND The successful implementation of decision aids in clinical practice initially depends on how clinicians perceive them. Relatively little is known about the acceptance of decision aids by physicians and factors influencing the implementation of decision aids from their point of view. Our electronic library of decision aids (arriba-lib) is to be used within the encounter and has a modu...

BACKGROUND Decision aids have been overall successful in improving the quality of health decision making. However, it is unclear whether the impact of the results of using decision aids also apply to older people (aged 65+). We sought to systematically review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and clinical controlled trials (CCTs) evaluating the efficacy of decision aids as compared to usual c...

BACKGROUND Shared decision making (SDM) is important in achieving patient-centered care. SDM tools such as decision aids are intended to inform the patient. When used to assist in decision making between treatments, decision aids have been shown to reduce decisional conflict, increase ease of decision making, and increase modification of previous decisions. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this syste...