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1 to 2 of 2 Research Studies DisplayedHolmes-Rovner M, Srikanth A, Henry SG
Decision aid use during post-biopsy consultations for localized prostate cancer.
The purpose of this study was to characterize the content and communicative function of high-quality decision aids during diagnostic clinic visits for prostate cancer. Results showed that good decision aids, systematically provided to patients, appeared to function not to open up deliberations about how to balance benefits and harms of competing treatments, but rather to allow patients to ask narrow technical questions about recommended treatments.
AHRQ-funded; HS021764.
Citation: Holmes-Rovner M, Srikanth A, Henry SG .
Decision aid use during post-biopsy consultations for localized prostate cancer.
Health Expect 2018 Feb;21(1):279-87. doi: 10.1111/hex.12613..
Keywords: Cancer: Prostate Cancer, Shared Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice, Patient and Family Engagement, Patient-Centered Healthcare, Clinician-Patient Communication
Cohen MD
AHRQ Author: Cohen MD
Engaging patients in understanding and using evidence to inform shared decision making.
The authors discuss various issues surrounding effective shared decision making, a collaborative process in which patients and members of their clinical teams work together to make health care decisions. These issues include some of the barriers – and facilitators – to engaging patients in understanding and using evidence to inform shared decision making and strategies that organizations can use to fully engage patients in creating and using evidence in decision making.
AHRQ-authored.
Citation: Cohen MD .
Engaging patients in understanding and using evidence to inform shared decision making.
Patient Educ Couns 2017 Jan;100(1):2-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2016.11.013.
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Keywords: Shared Decision Making, Evidence-Based Practice, Patient and Family Engagement, Clinician-Patient Communication