Patient decision aids: a content analysis based on a decision tree structure.

ABSTRACT:

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, elicit relevant values and emphasize the decision as a process, in ways that help patients make more informed health decisions individually or with relevant others.

Method

Twenty PDAs are randomly selected from the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) ( https://decisionaid.ohri.ca/AZlist.html ) approved list. An evaluation tool is built bottom-up and top-down and results are described in terms of communicating uncertainty, completeness of the decision tree, ambiguous or misleading phrasing, overall strategies suggested within personal stories.

Results

Twelve of the a

SUBMITTER: Gheondea-Eladi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642566 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature