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View all results of this resource type.UCSF Breast Cancer Decision Support Inspires Edinburgh
Inspired by Dr. Jeff Belkora's work with shared decision making at the UCSF Breast Care Center, Dr. Belinda Hacking brought a similar model to Edinburgh. Macmillan Cancer Support provided Belinda and her team with a generous grant for a pilot study integrating decision support into medical care for breast, prostate, brain and colorectal cancer. Preliminary results have shown that patients believed the intervention had a positive effect on their experience. Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, cancer, decision support, health care, patient perspective, shared decision making
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Shared Decision Making Month Contributor Spotlight: Alicia Staley
Alicia works as a community manager at The HIT Community, a start-up company based in Wakefield, MA. She contributes to the User's View Blog providing her perspective on health information technology and social media issues facing patients and healthcare workers in today's rapidly changing healthcare industry. With an engineering background and MBA/MS degrees in information systems, Alicia applies her technical knowledge in creative ways to bring different healthcare communities together to leverage knowledge, solutions, and support in efficient, effective ways. Continue reading
Posted in SDM Month
Tagged advocacy, Alicia Staley, cancer, caregivers, patient engagement, shared decision making, Shared Decision Making Month
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Featured Shared Decision Making Publications
View all results of this resource type.Use of Video to Facilitate End-of-Life Discussions with Patients with Cancer
This article describes a study that found that patients with cancer who viewed a video of various goals-of-care options, in addition to a verbal description were more likely to prefer comfort measures and avoid CPR. The study found that these patients were also more knowledgeable regarding advanced care treatment options and felt more certain about their decision compared to patients only hearing a verbal narrative. This article differs from some other studies regarding decision aids since other uses of video decision support tools have focused on helping people make treatment or screening decisions, whereas this video was used to initiate end-of-life discussions. Continue reading
Posted in Decision Aid Effectiveness
Tagged cancer, decision aids, end of life, Michael J. Barry, shared decision making
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View all results of this resource type.[ScienceLine] Visualizing the very end: A group of doctors advocates use of videos in advance care planning
"For the better part of the last decade, Volandes, who studied filmmaking during medical school, has been producing short videos to inform decision making about end-of-life care. With funding from the federal government and the [Informed Medical Decisions Foundation], Volandes and other doctors have tested the videos in controlled studies, and they have been integrated into standard practice at 35 large health care organizations in the U.S."Read the full-text article.
[dailyRX News] Videos Help Cancer Patients Understand Options
"This study was published in December in the 'Journal of Clinical Oncology.' Funding support was provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation. No conflicts of interest were reported."Read the full-text article.
Tagged cancer, CPR, decision aids, end-stage cancer, terminal cancer
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