BACKGROUND Decision aids educate patients about treatment options and outcomes. Communication aids include question lists, consultation summaries, and audio-recordings. In efficacy studies, decision aids increased patient knowledge, while communication aids increased patient question-asking and information recall. Starting in 2004, we trained successive cohorts of post-baccalaureate, pre-medica...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of randomised trials of patient decision aids in improving decision making and outcomes. DESIGN We included randomised trials of interventions providing structured, detailed, and specific information on treatment or screening options and outcomes to aid decision making. Two reviewers independently screened and extracted data on several evaluation crite...

Computer systems can help radiologists decide which tests to perform and which diagnoses to consider. Repositories of clinical data and general medical knowledge can provide information on demand for decision-making tasks; many of these information resources are available remotely via the Internet. Decision support systems can incorporate the techniques of artificial intelligence to apply their...

Recently, the existence of many computerized decision aids which support personal decision making have drawn massive attention to study how these aids really help the decision makers. Helping decision maker makes a particular decision has always been the major aim of decision aids. However, designing an effective decision aid is more than meet the eyes. Guidance portion of the interface design ...

This research investigates the influence of computerized search engines on consumer decision making in the electronic commerce environment. The results indicate that by providing well-designed decision aids to consumers, it is possible to significantly increase consumer confidence, satisfaction, and decision quality. Consumers who have access to query-based decision aids perceive increased cost...

PURPOSE To describe the effect of decision aids on the choice for surgery and knowledge of surgical therapy among women with early-stage breast cancer. METHODS A systematic review was conducted between years 1966 to 2006 of all studies designed to assess the effect of decision aids on surgical therapy. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL), the Cochrane Netwo...

Decision aids are evidence-based sources of health information that can help patients make informed treatment decisions. However, little is known about how decision aids affect health care use when they are implemented outside of randomized controlled clinical trials. We conducted an observational study to examine the associations between introducing decision aids for hip and knee osteoarthriti...