BACKGROUND Patient decision aids support people to make informed decisions between healthcare options. Personal stories provide illustrative examples of others' experiences and are seen as a useful way to communicate information about health and illness. Evidence indicates that providing information within personal stories affects the judgments and values people have, and the choices they make,...

» Shared decision making and decision aids have been effective in improving patient knowledge about medical procedures and in reducing decisional conflict and improving the accuracy of patients’ risk perceptions, allowing patients to make a decision that is more in accordance with their particular values and thus leading to improved patient outcomes and satisfaction after total joint arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND The successful implementation of decision aids in clinical practice initially depends on how clinicians perceive them. Relatively little is known about the acceptance of decision aids by physicians and factors influencing the implementation of decision aids from their point of view. Our electronic library of decision aids (arriba-lib) is to be used within the encounter and has a modu...

Background Decision aid developers have to convey complex task-specific numeric information in a way that minimizes bias and promotes understanding of the options available within particular decision. Whereas our companion paper summarizes fundamental issues, this article focuses on more complex, aspects presenting patient decision aids. Methods As part International Patient Aids Standards thir...

INTRODUCTION Currently, we lack understanding of the content, quality and impact of patient decision aids to support decision-making between medical and surgical methods of early abortion. We plan to undertake a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to identify, appraise and describe the impact of early abortion method decision aids evaluated quantitatively (Part I), and an environmenta...