Evaluating decision aids - where next?

Alicia O’Cathain; Kate Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2004.00258.x

doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2004.00258.x

Evaluating decision aids - where next?

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Health Expectations3.20

Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 98 - 103

Published: Apr 29, 2004

Abstract

Decision aids have been developed to help patients become involved in decision-making about their individual health care. During the evaluation of a particular decision aid in maternity care--a set of 10 'Informed Choice' leaflets--we considered the lessons learnt for evaluation of decision aids in the future. Decision aids have been tested mainly in explanatory trials and have been found to be effective. We argue that existing decision aids...