scholarly journals The Benefits and Challenges of Using Patient Decision Aids to Support Shared Decision Making in Health Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anshu Ankolekar ◽  
Andre Dekker ◽  
Rianne Fijten ◽  
Adriana Berlanga
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Patient Decision Aids ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Patient Decision

Shared decision making (SDM) and patient-centered care require patients to actively participate in the decision-making process. Yet with the increasing number and complexity of cancer treatment options, it can be a challenge for patients to evaluate clinical information and make risk–benefit trade-offs to choose the most appropriate treatment. Clinicians face time constraints and communication challenges, which can further hamper the SDM process. In this article, we review patient decision aids (PDAs) as a means of supporting SDM by presenting clinical information and risk data to patients in a format that is accessible and easy to understand. We outline the benefits and limitations of PDAs as well as the challenges in their development, such as a lengthy and complex development process and implementation obstacles. Lastly, we discuss future trends and how change on multiple levels—PDA developers, clinicians, hospital administrators, and health care insurers—can support the use of PDAs and consequently SDM. Through this multipronged approach, patients can be empowered to take an active role in their health and choose treatments that are in line with their values.

Modifying Unwarranted Variations In Health Care: Shared Decision Making Using Patient Decision Aids

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (Suppl2) ◽  
pp. VAR-63-VAR-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette M. O'Connor ◽  
Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas ◽  
Ann Barry Flood
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Patient Decision Aids ◽  
Patient Decision

Certified Patient Decision Aids: Solving Persistent Problems with Informed Consent Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Mason Pope
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Patient Decision Aids ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The legal doctrine of informed consent has overwhelmingly failed to assure that the medical treatment patients get is the treatment patients want. This Article describes and defends an ongoing shift toward shared decision making processes incorporating the use of certified patient decision aids.

Development of shared decision-making resources to help inform difficult healthcare decisions: An example focused on dysvascular partial foot and transtibial amputations

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 378-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Quigley ◽  
Michael P Dillon ◽  
Stefania Fatone
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aid ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Partial Foot Amputation

Background: Shared decision making is a consultative process designed to encourage patient participation in decision making by providing accurate information about the treatment options and supporting deliberation with the clinicians about treatment options. The process can be supported by resources such as decision aids and discussion guides designed to inform and facilitate often difficult conversations. As this process increases in use, there is opportunity to raise awareness of shared decision making and the international standards used to guide the development of quality resources for use in areas of prosthetic/orthotic care. Objectives: To describe the process used to develop shared decision-making resources, using an illustrative example focused on decisions about the level of dysvascular partial foot amputation or transtibial amputation. Development process: The International Patient Decision Aid Standards were used to guide the development of the decision aid and discussion guide focused on decisions about the level of dysvascular partial foot amputation or transtibial amputation. Examples from these shared decision-making resources help illuminate the stages of development including scoping and design, research synthesis, iterative development of a prototype, and preliminary testing with patients and clinicians not involved in the development process. Conclusion: Lessons learnt through the process, such as using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards checklist and development guidelines, may help inform others wanting to develop similar shared decision-making resources given the applicability of shared decision making to many areas of prosthetic-/orthotic-related practice. Clinical relevance Shared decision making is a process designed to guide conversations that help patients make an informed decision about their healthcare. Raising awareness of shared decision making and the international standards for development of high-quality decision aids and discussion guides is important as the approach is introduced in prosthetic-/orthotic-related practice.

Health Decisions and Decision Support for Women

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARILYN L. ROTHERT ◽  
ANNETTE M. O’CONNOR
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Shared Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Cochrane Review ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Conceptual Overview

Women are more likely to live longer with chronic illness and have a longterm relationship with their health care provider; this requires a situation in which patients and providers have a role in managing illness. In this chapter, the authors provide a conceptual overview of decision making along with key issues: historical concepts related to patients and providers, consumerism, informed choice/consent, patient rights, shared decision making, patient involvement, as well as an overview of models of patient/provider partnerships. This review builds on the work of O’Connor et al. (1999), which resulted in a Cochrane review of decision aids and focuses the examination of patient decision aids that support women’ decisions regarding health treatment or screening. The authors conclude with a look to the future and recommendations for research in the area of shared decision making and health care decision aids.

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