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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Patient decision"”.
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Effects of Off-Label Prescribing on Patient Decision Making
… the impact of off-label prescribing on patient decision making. This study sought to measure the impact on trust in physicians, intentions of involvement in the decision making, beliefs about the drug, and initial compliance intentions in elderly and nonelderly populations. Methods. This …
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Application of Symphonology Theory in Patient Decision-Making: Triangulation of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
… Symphonology were expressed in the experience of patients involved in health care decision-making, and 2) by testing the effect of an education/counseling intervention based on Symphonology, designed to facilitate decision-making. The study design was a pre-test post-test quasi-experimental …
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A rhetorical analysis of patient decision aids for genetic testing: Scientific knowledge, embodiment, and problematic integration in biomedicine
I consider how patient decision aids—technical communication documents created by biomedical practitioners—work to help people decide whether they should request genetic tests. I sample a genre of non-commercial patient decision aids that I term gateway documents developed by representatives of …
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Development of a Theory-Informed Patient Decision Aid to Facilitate Consent to Genetic Testing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
… concerns around issues of paternity, guardians’ decisional anxiety, low health literacy, limited understanding of genetic testing, and receiving conflicting information from different healthcare providers. These challenges are exacerbated by the urgency guardians face in the NICU; guardians’ …
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Shared Decision-Making to Improve Uptake of and Adherence with Oral Anticoagulation Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Initial Clinical Evaluation of a Web-Based Patient Decision Aid
Stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) remains a persistent clinical challenge, primarily due to suboptimal uptake and long-term adherence to oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy. Despite the established benefits of OACs in reducing stroke risk, many patients do not initiate …
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An Intervention to Involve Family in Decisions about Life Support
… to engage families and healthcare teams in the decision-making process about life support for critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Setting. Adult medical-surgical ICU at a Canadian academic teaching hospital. Methods. The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) …
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Informed Decision Making for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Considering Chemotherapy: Development and Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Aid for Patients
… of each treatment evaluated, an Internet-based patient decision aid was developed in order to present the benefits and risks of each therapy option: (1) Best supportive care (2) gemcitabine (3) FOLFIRINOX. The objective of the decision aid was to guide patients through the decision-making …
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Prenatal Screening Decision-Making Facilitated Through An Online Patient Education Module
… genetic screening are expanded to include patients with pregnancies at low risk for aneuploidy, there is a need to develop accessible mechanisms to promote informed decision-making about genetic screening. The use of patient decision aids has been shown to promote informed decision-making. …
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Helping Those Who Help Themselves: a Critical Discourse Analysis Of CNN's 'Indepth: Empowered Patient'
… advice, tips and education. In order for a patient to gain more autonomy in the patient – physician relationship, we assume they need more knowledge because they have traditionally relied on the physician for health related information. As such, we need to understand the patient –physician …
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Exploring Motivational Factors to Pursue Genetic Counseling and Testing In Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients
<p>Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients face a unique set of challenges when navigating cancer treatment and survivorship. For many patient populations, motivational factors to pursue genetic counseling/testing have been described, but these motivational factors in AYA cancer patients …
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Perceived opportunity for and preference in decision-making of hospitalized men and women
… Self-care agency is divided into a power and a decision-making component. To test the decision-making or operations component, a sample of 120 short-term, hospitalized patients were grouped equally according to gender and four age categories. The subjects voluntarily completed Roy's Hospitalized …
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Anxiety and Life-stressors Surrounding the Telemedicine Versus Traditional Counseling Experience
… surrounding the appointments of prenatal patients referred for an indication of advanced maternal age (AMA) in either a traditional genetic counseling or telemedicine setting. Methods: Fifteen patients seen in-person or through telemedicine completed surveys regarding their experiences. …
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The Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 On the Evidence Based Practice of Distributive Justice Via Comfort Care In Elderly Burn Trauma Victims
… the remarkable advance of modern healthcare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) mandates the early identification of goals-of-care through shared decision-making. Survival, even for very large burns, is an expectation for every patient population with one notable …
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Decision making in surgery and cancer care
Decision making in surgery and cancer care is an interesting, challenging, and yet little explored area of surgical sciences research. This research addresses that paucity. In performing this research, health outcomes research (HOR) literature was comprehensively reviewed. Health outcome measures …
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Decision making and abortion methods
… degree to which the leaflet facilitated women's decisions about abortion method. Results: The analysis of written and verbal information routinely provided by abortion service providers found that the procedures on having the abortion types were adequately described. However,information about the …
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A study of the ethical decision making ability of the hospitalized individual
This study entitled "A Study of the Ethical Decision Making Ability of the Hospitalized Patient" was a report of the differences between the ethical decision making capabilities of 52 hospitalized and 52 non-hospitalized adults. The null hypothesis was tested and rejected: There is no difference …
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A Life Experience: Making a Health Care Treatment Decision
… when making a health related treatment decision.
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Tailoring visual communication of cardiovascular disease risk to diverse populations: supporting informed decision-making in primary care
… Risk prediction models embedded within patient decision aids aim to support informed decision-making in primary prevention. However, clinical tools use varied graphic formats with little consistency, and evidence on which visual formats best support comprehension and decision-making …
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Do surgeons influence the treatment rates for T1 breast cancer patients at the local level of health care?
… care by investigating local treatment protocols, patient/physician beliefs and actual treatments chosen concerning early diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Critical moments in doctor-patient conversations in the context of complex conditions using the example of endometriosis : what coaching research and practice can contribute to the development of relational capabilities
Doctor–patient conversations in healthcare are foundational. They can be challenging, especially when decisions involving complexity are involved. When a patient faces a life restricting diagnosis, conversations with the doctor become critical in understanding diagnosis, treatment and likely …
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