Background Decision aids are interventions that support patients by making their decisions
explicit, providing information about options and associated benefits/harms, and helping …

Purpose : Antimicrobial prophylaxis is the periprocedural systemic administration of an
antimicrobial agent intended to reduce the risk of postprocedural local and systemic infections. …

Background Readmissions to hospital are increasingly being used as an indicator of quality
of care. However, this approach is valid only when we know what proportion of …

Background Research needs to be reported transparently so readers can critically assess
the strengths and weaknesses of the design, conduct, and analysis of studies. Reporting …

Objectives To describe the development, validation and inter-rater reliability of an instrument
to measure the quality of patient decision support technologies (decision aids). Design …

Objective. The IPDAS Collaboration has developed a checklist and an instrument (IPDASi
v3.0) to assess the quality of patient decision aids (PDAs) in terms of their development …

Although cancer management is becoming more structured with disease‐ specific guidelines
and clinical pathways, many decisions remain complex. Contributing to this complexity is …

We assessed safety and efficacy of rituximab in a prospective study of 36 patients, age 2.6
to 18.3 years, with severe chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). The primary …

OBJECTIVE: The Preparation for Decision Making (PrepDM) scale was developed to
evaluate decision processes relating to the preparation of patients for decision making and …

Background. Decision coaching is individualized, nondirective facilitation of patient preparation
for shared decision making. Purpose. To explore characteristics and effectiveness of …