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 …

Background Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of healthcare
providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and their …

Patient satisfaction measures have previously addressed satisfaction with medical care,
satisfaction with providers, and satisfaction with outcomes, but not satisfaction with the health …

Objectives To describe the development, validation and inter-rater reliability of an instrument
to measure the quality of patient decision support technologies (decision aids). Design …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: Advances in health care require that individuals participate knowledgeably and
actively in their health care to realize its full benefit. Implications of these changes for the …

Background Effective use of a patient decision aid (PtDA) can be affected by the user’s health
literacy and the PtDA’s characteristics. Systematic reviews of the relevant literature can …

… Members of the evaluation team, including hospital Study Coordinators (Draus, Nabozny-Valerio,
Keiser), BCBSM staff (Valade, Orlowski) and the consultant (Holmes-Rovner), …