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Shared Decision Making Resources
View all results of this resource type.International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration
The IPDAS collaboration consists of international researchers, practitioners and stakeholders working to establish an internationally approved set of criteria for patient decision aid quality. Continue reading
Tagged decision aids, IPDAS
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Featured Shared Decision Making Publications
View all results of this resource type.Are Patient Decision Aids the Best Way to Improve Clinical Decision Making? Report of the IPDAS Symposium
This article reports on the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Symposium held in 2006 at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The symposium featured a debate regarding the proposition that "decision aids are the best way to improve clinical decision making." Continue reading
Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
A sleeper provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) encourages greater use of shared decision making in health care. For many health situations in which there's not one clearly superior course of treatment, shared decision making can ensure that medical care better aligns with patients' preferences and values. One way to implement this approach is by using patient decision aids -- written materials, videos, or interactive electronic presentations designed to inform patients and their families about care options; each option's outcomes, including benefits and possible side effects; the health care team's skills; and costs. Shared decision making has the potential to provide numerous benefits for patients, clinicians, and the health care system, including increased patient knowledge, less anxiety over the care process, improved health outcomes, reductions in unwarranted variation in care and costs, and great alignment of care with patients' values. Continue reading
Posted in Cost, Decision Aid Effectiveness, Health Care Policy, Patient Decision Aids, Patient Preferences, SDM Implementation
Tagged ACA, CMS, Cochrane Collaborative, decision aids, Group Health, health care costs, HHS, IOM, IPDAS, Medicare, NEJM, PCORI, practice variation, shared decision making
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Informed Medical Decisions Foundation Funded Research
View all results of this resource type.Examining the Relationship Between Decision Support Interventions and Outcome Measurements: Applying the IPDAS Instrument to the Results of the Cochrane Systematic Review of Patient Decision Aids
The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration has led to the development of a quality checklist and, more recently, an instrument to assess the quality of decision support interventions. We recognize that further work is required to examine the relationships between International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi) scores and the outcomes achieved in clinical trials. Continue reading
Posted in Decision Aid Effectiveness, Directed Research
Tagged Cochrane Review, decision aids, decision support, IPDAS, IPDASi
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