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 …

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 …

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder, associated
with elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), which can lead to …

The study objective was to evaluate the psychometric properties of a decisional conflict scale
(DCS) that elicits: 1) health-care consumers' uncertainty in making a health-related decision…

Background.As patients become more involved in health care decisions, there may be
greater opportunity for decision regret. The authors could not find a validated, reliable tool for …

Although postmenopausal women are advised to consider their values when deliberating
about potential benefits and risks of hormone therapy (HRT), feasible, effective methods of …

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 …

… O'Connor et al used the checklist to assess the registered trials and found that several
IPDAS process measures had not been used [13]. Williams used IPDASi v2 to assess DSTs for …

Different decisions require different strategies to communicate risk and support decisions, and
we consider that two broad classes of decisions exist for patients. The first class lies in the …

Ours is an era in which patients seek greater engagement in health care choices, increasing
the demand for high-quality information about clinical options. Providing support for …