Effectiveness of patient decision aids for cardiovascular decisions: systematic review with sex/gender-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Determine effectiveness of cardiovascular patient decision aids (PtDAs), assess consideration for sex and/or gender in included trials, and report whether PtDAs included sex/gender information in personal cardiovascular risk calculations, benefits or harms.

Methods and results

Systematic review with meta-analysis. Independent reviewers screened 209 trials in the 2024 Cochrane Review of PtDAs for eligible cardiovascular trials with updated search to February 2025. Primary outcomes: attributes of the decision-quality and decision-making process. We conducted meta-analysis for similarly measured outcomes. We assessed sex/gender considerations according to International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' recommendations. Thirty-two trials evaluated PtDAs vs. usual care o

SUBMITTER: Lewis KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12746715 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature