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...

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...

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 treatment...

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 ...

Objectives Patient decision aids can be used to support pregnant women engaging in shared decisions, but little is known about their effects in obstetrics. The authors aimed to evaluate the effects of patient decision aids designed for pregnant women on clinical and psychosocial outcomes. Design Systematic review. Data on all outcomes were extracted and summarised. All studies were critically ...

BACKGROUND Decision aids educate patients about treatment options and outcomes. Communication aids include question lists, consultation summaries, and audio-recordings. In efficacy studies, decision aids increased patient knowledge, while communication aids increased patient question-asking and information recall. Starting in 2004, we trained successive cohorts of post-baccalaureate, pre-medica...