Decision boxes for clinicians to support evidence-based practice and shared decision making: the user experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This project engages patients and physicians in the development of Decision Boxes, short clinical topic summaries covering medical questions that have no single best answer. Decision Boxes aim to prepare the clinician to communicate the risks and benefits of the available options to the patient so they can make an informed decision together.

Methods

Seven researchers (including four practicing family physicians) selected 10 clinical topics relevant to primary care practice through a Delphi survey. We then developed two one-page prototypes on two of these topics: prostate cancer screening with the prostate-specific antigen test, and prenatal screening for trisomy 21 with the serum integrated test. We presented the prototypes to purposeful samples of family physicia

SUBMITTER: Giguere A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533695 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature