Establishing the effectiveness of patient decision aids: key constructs and measurement instruments

• Main Authors: Sepucha, K.R., Borkhoff, C.M., Lally, J., Levin, C.A., Matlock, D.D., Ng, C.J., Ropka, M.E., Stacey, D., Joseph-Williams, N., Wills, C.E., Thomson, R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2013
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/10191/1/Sepucha-2013-Establishing_the_eff.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/10191/; http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/13/S2/S12

Background: Establishing the effectiveness of patient decision aids (PtDA) requires evidence that PtDAs improve the quality of the decision-making process and the quality of the choice made, or decision quality. The aim of this paper is to review the theoretical and empirical evidence for PtDA effec...