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Background: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a major cause of stroke. Oral anticoagulation can reduce the risk of AF-associated stroke by 65% but it remains underused.
Justin H. Baers +5 more
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Physicians' intentions and use of three patient decision aids [PDF]
Background Decision aids are evidence based tools that assist patients in making informed values-based choices and supplement the patient-clinician interaction.
Ian D Graham +43 more
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Political Economy Reasons for Government Inertia: The Role of Interest Groups in the Case of Access to Medicines [PDF]
The reluctant reaction of western governments to the AIDS crisis in developing countries is only one example for policy areas where we observe a lack of political action despite a public interest in policy change.
Börner, Kira
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What is the effect of a decision aid in potentially vulnerable parents? Insights from the head CT choice randomized trial. [PDF]
ObjectiveTo test the hypotheses that use of the Head CT Choice decision aid would be similarly effective in all parent/patient dyads but parents with high (vs low) numeracy experience a greater increase in knowledge while those with low (vs high) health ...
Cohen, Daniel M +14 more
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Modified Delphi survey for the evidence summarisation of patient decision AIDS: Study protocol [PDF]
Introduction Information included in a patient decision aid (PDA) can significantly influence patients' decisions and is, therefore, expected to be evidence-based and rigorously selected and summarised.
Alper, Brian S. +8 more
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Shared decision-making (SDM) empowers patients and care teams to determine the best treatment plan in alignment with the patient's preferences and goals. Decision aids are proven tools to support high quality SDM.
Janette Fanio +7 more
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Questioning the Quantitative Imperative: Decision Aids, Prevention, and the Ethics of Disclosure [PDF]
Patients should not always receive hard data about the risks and benefits of a medical intervention. That information should always be available to patients who expressly ask for it, but it should be part of standard disclosure only sometimes, and only ...
Schwartz, Peter H.
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The process of decision-making is increasingly supported by algorithms in a wide variety of contexts. However, the phenomenon of algorithm aversion conflicts with the development of the technological potential that algorithms bring with them.
Jan René Judek
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Plain English summary Decision aids are paper or electronic tools that help people make medical decisions. They have been shown to help with shared decision making between patients, their loved ones, and a health professional.
Kevin Selby +8 more
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Decision aids can support cancer clinical trials decisions: Results of a randomized trial [PDF]
BACKGROUND. Cancer patients often do not make informed decisions regarding clinical trial participation. This study evaluated whether a web-based decision aid (DA) could support trial decisions compared with our cancer center’s website. METHODS.
Byrne, Margaret M +5 more
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