Background Decision aids are interventions that support patients by making their decisions
explicit, providing information about options and associated benefits/harms, and helping …

Objective To develop a set of quality criteria for patient decision support technologies (decision
aids). Design and setting Two stage web based Delphi process using online rating …

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of randomised trials of patient decision aids in
improving decision making and outcomes. Design: We included randomised trials of …

The relationship between cancer patients’ desire for information and their preference for
participation in decision making has been examined. Approximately 77% of the 52 patients …

Preference-sensitive treatment decisions involve making value trade-offs between benefits
and harms that should depend on informed patient choice. There is strong evidence that …

Shared decision making is the process of interacting with patients in arriving at informed
values-based choices when options have features that patients value differently. Patient …

Objective. To describe the extent to which patient decision aids (PtDAs) meet effectiveness
standards of the International Patient Decision Aids Collaboration (IPDAS).Data sources.Five …

In 2003, the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration was
established to enhance the quality and effectiveness of patient decision aids by establishing an …

… Llewellyn-Thomas, Richard J. Barth Jr, and Karen R. Sepucha … Llewellyn-Thomas,
Karen R. Sepucha Administrative support: Caroline P. Moore, Kate F. … Llewellyn-Thomas …

Judgments about the value of life in various states of health underlie many if not all clinical
decisions. For example, what risk of operative death should a patient with malignant disease …