Toward The ‘Tipping Point’: Decision Aids And Informed Patient Choice

The tipping point: the relationship between volume and patient harm.

This study purports to show the relationship between volume and patient harm due to health care error. Using 5 measures of volume and incident reports weighted for patient harm over the course of 515 days, it is shown that increased volume is related to increased harm to patients. As the number of areas in the hospital experiencing high volume increased, the likelihood of patients sustaining se...

The Ottawa patient decision aids.

CONTEXT Shared decision-making programs, or patient decision aids, have been developed for difficult decisions in which patients need to consider benefits versus risks. PRACTICE PATTERN EXAMINED Decision aids currently used in practice in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. DATA SOURCES Published studies of patients faced with decisions about hormone therapy, prenatal testing, lung cancer treatments, ...

Aligning ethics with medical decision-making: the quest for informed patient choice.

Clinical evidence suggests that many patients undergo surgery that they would decline if fully informed. Failure to communicate the relevant risks, benefits, and alternatives of a procedure violates medical ethics and wastes medical resources. Integrating shared decision-making, a method of communication between provider and patient, into medical decisions can satisfy physicians' ethical obliga...

The patient's role in choice of medications: direct-to-consumer advertising and patient decision aids.

Informed Patient Choice in Treatment Abroad - A Response to Recent Commentaries