Background Consensus guidelines have recommended that decision aids include a process
for helping patients clarify their values. We sought to examine the theoretical and empirical …

Background Patient decision aids should help people make evidence-informed decisions
aligned with their values. There is limited guidance about how to achieve such alignment …

Objective Shared decision-making (SDM) is advocated as the model for decision-making in
preference-sensitive decisions. In this paper we sketch the history of the concept of SDM …

Background. Values clarification is a recommended element of patient decision aids. Many
different values clarification methods exist, but there is little evidence synthesis available to …

Background: Health information is increasingly presented on the Internet. Several Web
design guidelines for older Web users have been proposed; however, these guidelines are …

Background To explore how clinical practice guidelines can be adapted to facilitate shared
decision making. Methods This was a qualitative key-informant study with group discussions …

Background Patients are satisfied with their kidney care but want more support in making
dialysis choices. Predialysis leaflets vary across services, with few being sufficient to enable …

Patient decision aids are known to positively impact outcomes critical to shared decision
making (SDM), such as gist knowledge and decision preparedness. However, research on …

Treatment preferences play a key role in dictating sleep health outcomes. However, patients'
treatment beliefs, attitudes, and experiences that inform preference conceptualization …

Objective To examine situations where shared decision making (SDM) in practice does not
achieve the goal of a patient-centered decision. Methods We explore circumstances in …