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A proposal for the development of national certification standards for patient decision aids in the US

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  • Elwyn, Glyn
  • Burstin, Helen
  • Barry, Michael J.
  • Corry, Maureen P.
  • Durand, Marie Anne
  • Lessler, Daniel
  • Saigal, Christopher

Abstract

Efforts to implement the use of patient decision aids to stimulate shared decision making are gaining prominence. Patient decision aids have been designed to help patients participate in making specific choices among health care options. Because these tools clearly influence decisions, poor quality, inaccurate or unbalanced presentations or misleading tools are a risk to patients. As payer interest in these tools increases, so does the risk that patients are harmed by the use of tools that are described as patient decision aids yet fail to meet established standards. To address this problem, the National Quality Forum (NQF) in the USA convened a multi-stakeholder expert panel in 2016 to propose national standards for a patient decision aid certification process. In 2017, NQF established an Action Team to foster shared decision making, and to call for a national certification process as one recommendation among others to stimulate improvement. A persistent barrier to the setup of a national patient decision aids certification process is the lack of a sustainable financial model to support the work.

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  • Elwyn, Glyn & Burstin, Helen & Barry, Michael J. & Corry, Maureen P. & Durand, Marie Anne & Lessler, Daniel & Saigal, Christopher, 2018. "A proposal for the development of national certification standards for patient decision aids in the US," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 122(7), pages 703-706.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:122:y:2018:i:7:p:703-706
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.04.010
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    1. Dawn Stacey & Victoria Suwalska & Laura Boland & Krystina B. Lewis & Justin Presseau & Richard Thomson, 2019. "Are Patient Decision Aids Used in Clinical Practice after Rigorous Evaluation? A Survey of Trial Authors," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 39(7), pages 805-815, October.
    2. Dawn Stacey & Robert J. Volk, 2021. "The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration: Evidence Update 2.0," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 41(7), pages 729-733, October.

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