Context Promoting patient participation in treatment decision making is of increasing interest
to researchers, clinicians and policy makers. Decision aids (DAs) are advocated as one way …

Background Establishing the effectiveness of patient decision aids (PtDA) requires evidence
that PtDAs improve the quality of the decision-making process and the quality of the choice …

As patient involvement has become part of public dialogue about health care, there has
been growing attention to how to support people to behave in ways that allow them to …

Patient decision aids (ptDAs) have been developed to assist patients with difficult health‐
related decisions. Despite their proven effects on decision quality in numerous efficacy trials …

Medical Decision Making recently published evidence updates from the International Panel
of Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) that will inform the next iteration of decision aid …

Background In the last 10 years, there has been a major growth in the development of
treatment decision aids. Multiple goals have been identified for these tools. However, the …

Objective We completed a systematic review of information reported as included in decision
aids (DAs) for adult patients, to determine if it is complete, balanced and accurate. Search …

Background In 2014, a systematic review found large gaps in the quality of reporting of
measures used in 86 published trials evaluating the effectiveness of patient decision aids …

Introduction This paper presents the preliminary results of a decision-tree analysis of Patient
Decision Aids (PDA). PDAs are online or offline tools used to structure health information …

Background The 2013 update of the evidence informing the quality dimensions behind the
International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) offered a model process for …