This unique textbook integrates statistical concepts into evidence-based clinical practice and
patient management. Research concepts and techniques are drawn from epidemiology, bio …

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 …

Background Consensus guidelines have recommended that decision aids include a process
for helping patients clarify their values. We sought to examine the theoretical and empirical …

OBJECTIVE: Patient-centred depression care approaches should better address barriers of
insufficient patient information and involvement in the treatment decision process. Additional …

OBJECTIVE: Patient participation in shared treatment decision-making is hypothesized to
improve depression treatment adherence and clinical outcomes in depressed patients. The …

Abstract Objective Validation of the German version of the Autonomy‐Preference‐Index
(API), a measure of patients' preferences for decision making and information seeking …

Background Patient decision aids (PDAs) are evidence-based tools designed to help
patients make specific and deliberated choices among healthcare options. The International …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between shared
decision-making (SDM) and satisfaction with decision (SWD) within a larger survey of …

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a decision support intervention (DSI) to
assist women to make and act on informed decisions that are consistent with their values in …

Several medical management approaches have been shown to be effective in preventing
breast cancer and detecting it early among women at elevated risk: 1) prophylactic …