Shared Decision-Making and Patient Decision Aids [PDF]
The quality and cost of medical care is determined in large part by the decisions that clinicians and patients make every day about seeking care, having tests, starting treatments, and stopping treatments. There are situations in medicine in which a treatment or approach has considerable evidence of significant benefit with minimal or no harm.
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Addressing health literacy in patient decision aids [PDF]
BackgroundEffective use of a patient decision aid (PtDA) can be affected by the user’s health literacy and the PtDA’s characteristics. Systematic reviews of the relevant literature can guide PtDA developers to attend to the health literacy needs of patients. The reviews reported here aimed to assess:1.
McCaffery, K. +8 more
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Decision support system for the selection of an ITE or a BTE hearing aid [PDF]
The purpose of this research is to mine a large set of heterogeneous audiology data to create a decision support system (DSS) to choose between two hearing aid types (ITE and BTE aid).
Anwar, Muhammad Naveed +1 more
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Mining and analysis of audiology data to find significant factors associated with tinnitus masker [PDF]
Objectives: The objective of this research is to find the factors associated with tinnitus masker from the literature, and by using the large amount of audiology data available from a large NHS (National Health Services, UK) hearing aid clinic.
AC Davis +49 more
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A systematic review of online resources to support patient decision-making for full-thickness rectal prolapse surgery [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The internet is becoming an increasingly popular resource to support patient decision-making outside of the clinical encounter. The quality of online health information is variable and largely unregulated.
A Sehgal +18 more
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Method for Developing Patient Decision Aid in China
Objective To systematically construct a guideline to provide a methodological guide for researchers to develop patient decision aids. Methods Through a literature review of international methodological guidance for developing patient decision aids ...
LU Yao +13 more
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Background There are a range of treatment options for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee and hip, each with a unique profile of risks and benefits. Patient decision aids can help incorporate patient preferences in treatment decision‐making.
Sam G. Moreton +5 more
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The Role of Personalised Choice in Decision Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Screening. [PDF]
IMPORTANCE: Decision support tools can assist people to apply population-based evidence on benefits and harms to individual health decisions. A key question is whether "personalising" choice within decisions aids leads to better decision quality ...
Cunich, Michelle +6 more
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Intratumoral heterogeneity analysis reveals hidden associations between protein expression losses and patient survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. [PDF]
Intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) is a prominent feature of kidney cancer. It is not known whether it has utility in finding associations between protein expression and clinical parameters. We used ITH that is detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC) to aid
Devarajan, Karthik +10 more
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Development of a hidradenitis suppurativa patient decision aid [PDF]
Patient decision aids (PDAs) are tools that facilitate informed shared decision-making between patients and health care providers. To address a previously identified need in treatment decision-making in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), we developed an HS-PDA.Development of the HS-PDA was based on International Patient Decision Aids Standards.
McBride, Olivia +9 more
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