Balance Sheets Versus Decision Dashboards to Support Patient Treatment Choices: A Comparative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Growing recognition of the importance of involving patients in preference-driven healthcare decisions has highlighted the need to develop practical strategies to implement patient-centered shared decision-making. The use of tabular balance sheets to support clinical decision-making is well established. More recent evidence suggests that graphic, interactive decision dashboards can help people derive deeper a understanding of information within a specific decision context. We therefore conducted a non-randomized trial comparing the effects of adding an interactive dashboard to a static tabular balance sheet on patient decision-making.

Methods

The study population consisted of members of the ResearchMatch registry who volunteered to participate in a study of medical

SUBMITTER: Dolan JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515203 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature