BACKGROUND Decision aids based on the philosophy of shared decision making are designed to help patients make informed choices among diagnostic or treatment options by delivering evidence-based information on options and outcomes. A patient decision aid can be regarded as a complex intervention because it consists of several presumably relevant components. Decision aids have rarely been field t...

Decision aids (DAs) are interventions designed to help people make specific and deliberative choices among options by providing information about the options and outcomes that is relevant to a person's health status.There is an ongoing discussion about the quality of DAs. The present article provides an overview on systematic approaches using various quality criteria. However, these evaluation ...

BACKGROUND We know very little about how individuals decide to undertake, maintain, or discontinue cancer primary prevention or chemoprevention. PURPOSE The aims of this article are to (a) examine whether and, if so, how traditional health behavior change models are relevant for decision making in this area; (b) review the application of decision aids to forming specific, personal choices bet...

Unintended pregnancies are an important public health issue. Long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs) are reliable, safe, highly effective methods for most women; however they are underutilized in the United States. Shared decision aids were added to usual care in five public health family planning clinics in the Southeastern United States, staffed by advance practice nurses and reg...

This report addresses issues of quality in the context of management decision aids. It proposes rules for high quality management support procedures using these aids, and presents criteria for more effective implementation of these decision aids into the strategic management of science and technology. Two illustrative examples of quality in the context of management decision aids are presented....

This study investigates how usage experience with various decision aids available in an online store contributes to purchase behavior evolution in a new Internet shopping environment. In the context of online grocery stores, we categorize four types of decision aids: those for 1) nutritional needs, 2) brand preference, 3) economic needs, and 4) personalized shopping lists, and construct a Nonho...

Effective decision support for complex military operations requires more than the development of sophisticated decision aids. A decision aid must be integrated into a decision support system that brings to the decision aid the right information at the right time at the right level of detail. The user must have confidence in the tool’s results. This paper describes decision aids being developed ...