Assessing the quality and communicative aspects of patient decision aids for early-stage breast cancer treatment: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Decision aids (DAs) support patients in shared decision-making by providing balanced evidence-based treatment information and eliciting patients' preferences. The purpose of this systematic review was to assess the quality and communicative aspects of DAs for women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

Methods

Twenty-one currently available patient DAs were identified through both published literature (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, CENTRAL, and PsycINFO) and online sources. The DAs were reviewed for their quality by using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) checklist, and subsequently assessed to what extent they paid attention to various communicative aspects, including (i) information presentation, (ii) personalization, (iii) interaction, (iv) i

SUBMITTER: Vromans R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6790198 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature