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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Patient decision aids"”.
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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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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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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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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 …