Preference-sensitive treatment decisions involve making value trade-offs between benefits
and harms that should depend on informed patient choice. There is strong evidence that�…

Shared decision making is the process of interacting with patients in arriving at informed
values-based choices when options have features that patients value differently. Patient�…

There is considerable evidence, across different clinical contexts, that treatment decisions
are characterized by poor communication, significant knowledge gaps, and a lack of�…

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�…

OBJECTIVE: To discuss whether using the International Patient Decision Aids Standards
(IPDAS) Collaboration checklist as a gold standard to judge interventions' quality is�…

Decision making is central to health policy and medical practice. Because health outcomes
are probabilistic, most decisions are made under conditions of uncertainty. This review�…

Health decision aids are a potentially valuable adjunct to patient-physician communication
and decision making. Although the overarching goal of decision aids—to help patients make�…

For medical decisions with more than one reasonable option, patient participation in
decision making is often necessary to optimally match management decisions with patient�…

The decision to undergo many discretionary medical treatments should be based on
informed patient choice. Shared decision making is an effective strategy for achieving this�…

Results Although most patients considering health care options arrive for counseling with
strong predispositions toward a particular option, some are uncertain about their choice and�…