Patient Decision Aids

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Patient Decision Aids

Patient decision aids are informational tools containing clinical care content intended for patients seeking clinical care options and outcomes relevant to a health condition.[1] Patient decision aids enhance a patient’s understanding and knowledge about treatment options and enhance the patient’s overall ability to make effective and informed clinical decisions.[2] Additionally, patient decision aids are correlated with increased patient engagement is health maintenance and increase a patient’s ability to communicate more effectively with clinicians.[3][4] Although patient decision aids increase patient engagement in health maintenance, such patient aids are not to be interpreted as prescriptive or replacements to practitioner advise and counseling.[5]

Efforts to Standardize

Patient decision aid vary in communication styles with enormous complexity per institutions. Nonetheless, many healthcare organizations already strive to promote creative mechanisms that produce quality patient decision aids. Collaborations have formed among international groups within the International Patient Decision Aid Standards. In 2003 IPDAS was formed through an international collaboration of healthcare practitioners and clinicians. The IPDAS collaboration currently promotes a formal methodology with the purpose “to enhance the quality and effectiveness of patient decision aids by establishing a shared evidence-informed framework with a set criteria for improving their content, development, implementation, and evaluation."[6]

Patient Decision Aids in current use

The current state of the healthcare industry in the U.S. post HITECH act, has benefitted from technological contributions in the area of quality patient decision aids on the internet.[7] Increasing adoption of patient decision aid tools by major health care institutions is evidence of the growing interest in strengthening quality of clinical encounters. Organizations such as the Mayo Clinic, are already exploring patient decision aids within the Mayo Clinic Shared Decision Making National Resource Center.[8][9]

References

  1. http://ipdas.ohri.ca/what.html
  2. http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/tools-and-resources/patient-decision-aids/
  3. http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/tools-and-resources/patient-decision-aids/
  4. https://innovations.ahrq.gov/profiles/shared-decisionmaking-tools-plus-peer-support-lead-more-efficient-and-effective-mental
  5. http://decisionaid.ohri.ca/index.html
  6. http://decisionaid.ohri.ca/index.html
  7. http://healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/health-it-legislation
  8. http://shareddecisions.mayoclinic.org/
  9. http://webpages.charter.net/vmontori/Wiser_Choices_Program_Aids_Site/Welcome.html

Submitted by Alejandro Velasco