Background. Health-related quality of life is a key issue in prostate cancer (PC)
management. The authors summarized published utilities for common health-related quality …

Background: The frequently indolent nature of early-stage prostate cancer in older men and
in men with low-or moderate-grade tumors and the demonstration that the survival benefits …

Health decision aids are a potentially valuable adjunct to patient-physician communication
and decision making. Although the overarching goal of decision aids—to help patients make …

BACKGROUND. Little is known regarding how patients select treatment for localized
prostate cancer. This study examined determinants of patients' preferences for health states …

Background. A common assertion is that rating scale (RS) values are lower than both
standard gamble (SG) and time tradeoff (TTO) values. However, differences among these …

This article reports on the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Symposium held in
2006 at the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Cambridge …

The authors examine how a constructive preferences perspective might change the
prevailing view of medical decision making by suggesting that the methods used to measure …

BACKGROUND Selecting treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer remains an
ongoing challenge. Previous decision analyses focused on a hypothetical patient with …

As outlined in Chapter 2 and Chapter 6, the measure of health outcomes used in cost-
effectiveness analysis (CEA) is typically the number of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) …

Background Shared decision making (SDM) has been advocated as an approach to medical
decision making that can improve decisional quality. Decision aids are tools that facilitate …