News & Events Archive

2009

Jun 14-17 – ISDM

The 5th International Shared Decision Making Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

March 12 – Patient Information Forum's Fourth Annual Conference

PiF's fourth annual conference looks at both improving information itself and raising its profile as a valuable and necessary intervention. The event features a range of presentations, a panel session and master classes focusing on a variety of topic areas.

2008

October 27-30 – The Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward Seminar

The Institute for Family-Centered Care in partnership with Calgary Health Region present this seminar which provides four days of comprehensive and practical sessions designed to help administrative leaders, physicians, nurses and other clinical staff, and patient and family advisors become effective agents for patient- and family-centered change in their institutions.

October 19-22 – SMDM Annual Meeting

30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making in Philadelphia, PA

September 2-5 – EACH Conference

European Association for Communication in Healthcare organised International Conference on Communication in Healthcare in Oslo, Norway

June 25-July 2 – Summer Institutes in Informed Patient Choice (SIIPC 2008)

The Center for Informed Choice at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality present SIIPC 2008 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

2007

September 26 – MDM Special Issue

Shared Decision Making
Decision Aids: Past, Present and Future

The Society for Medical Decision Making has made the September/October 2007 Special Issue of Medical Decision Making available free-of-charge for a limited time. This Issue examines the future of shared decision-making from various directions and features new research articles, reviews of the state of the science and other perspectives.

Click on any of the articles listed below to view the article in its entirety. (All articles are available electronically with the exception of editorials.)

Shared Decision Making

Shared Decision Making "It's My Body": Does Patient Involvement in Decision-Making Reduce Decisional Conflict?
Heidemarie Kremer, Gail Ironson, Neil Schneiderman, Martin Hautzinger

Participation in Medical Decision Making: the Patients' Perspective.
Liana Fraenkel, Sarah McGraw

Shared Decision-Making in the Medical Encounter: Are we all Talking about the Same Thing?
Nora Moumjid, Amiram Gafni, Alain Bremond, Marie-Odile Carrere

Decision Aids

Editorial: Incorporating Decision Analysis in Decision Aids.
Michael Pignone

Editorial: Aiding Medical Decision Making: A Communication Perspective.
Richard L Street Jr

Do Patient Decision Aids Meet Effectiveness Criteria of the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Annette M O'Connor, Carol Bennett, Dawn Stacey, Michael J Barry, Nananda F Col, Karen B Eden, Vikki Entwistle, Valerie Fiset, Margaret Holmes-Rovner,
Sara Khangura, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, David Rovner

Effectiveness of a Computerised Decision Aid in Primary Care on Decision Making and Quality of Life in Menorrhagia: Results of the MENTIP Randomised Controlled Trial.
Joanne Protheroe, Peter Bower, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Tim Peters, Tom Fahey

Can Computerized Decision Support Help Patients Make Complex Treatment Decisions? A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Individualized Menopause Decision Aid.
Nananda F Col, Long Ngo, Jennifer M Fortin, Robert J Goldberg, Annette M O'Connor

Are Decision Aids the Best Way to Improve Clinical Decision-Making? The IPDAS Symposium.
Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Wendy L Nelson, Michael Pignone, Glyn Elwyn, David R Rovner, Annette M O'Connor, Angela Coulter, Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo

Rethinking the Objectives of Decision Aids: A Call for Conceptual Clarity.
Wendy Nelson, Paul KJ Han, Angela Fagerlin, Michael Stefanek, Peter A Ubel

Patient Decision Aids to Support Clinical Decision Making: Evaluating the Decision or the Outcomes of the Decision.
Kristen McCaffrey, Les Irwig, Patrick Bossuyt

Communication and Decision Making in Cancer Care: Setting Research Priorities for Decision Support / Patients' Decision Aids.
Amber E Barnato, Hilary A Llewellyn-Thomas, Ellen M Peters, Laura Siminoff,
E Dale Collins, Michael J Barry

Risk Communication

Editorial: Contingent or Universal Approaches to Patient Deficiencies in Health Numeracy.
Robert M Hamm, David E Bard, Elaine Hsieh, Howard F Stein

A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Presenting Treatment Benefits in Different Formats.
Judith Covey

Validation of the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS): Effects of Low Numeracy on Comprehension of Risk Communications and Utility Elicitations.
Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Dylan M Smith, Peter A Ubel, Angela Fagerlin

Measuring Numeracy without a Math Test: Development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS).
Angela Fagerlin, Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Peter A Ubel, Aleksandra Jankovic, Holly A Derry, Dylan M Smith

The Drug Facts Box: Providing Consumers With Simple Tabular Data On Drug Benefit and Harm.
Lisa M Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, H Gilbert Welch

John M. Eisenberg Clinical Decisions and Communications Science Center White Paper Series

Communicating the Uncertainty of Harms and Benefits of Medical Interventions.
Mary C Politi, Paul KJ Han, Nananda F Col

Numeric, Verbal and Visual Formats of Conveying Health Risks: Suggested "Best Practices" and Future Recommendations.
Isaac M Lipkus

August 31 – Paper published in Health Expectations

Prediction of health professionals' intention to screen for decisional conflict in clinical practice. France Légaré, Ian D. Graham, Annette C. O'Connor, Michèle Aubin, Lucie Baillargeon, Yvan Leduc, Jean Maziade. Health Expect. 2007:(OnlineEarly Articles).

June 25-July 6 – CECS Summer Institute

CECS: Summer Institute in Informed Patient Choice at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA.

June 22 – Decision Aids featured in BMJ Editorial

Evidence to inform. Fiona Godlee BMJ 2007;334.

May 30-June 1 – ISDM

The 4th International Shared Decision Making Conference at the University of Freiburg in Germany.

May 22 – Commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal

Using decision aids to help patients navigate the "grey zone" of medical decision-making. Annette M. O'Connor CMAJ 2007;176 1597-1598.

March – CHSRF Publishes Evidence Boost Report on Patient Decsion Aids

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation publishes the essay: Introduce patient decision aids to improve clinical decision-making quality for "grey zone" decisions.

Patient Decision Aids featured in Hospital Healthcare Europe

Dawn Stacey, Carol Bennett and Annette O'Connor author the article "Patient decision aids: tools to enhance quality of healthcare decisions" appearing in Hospital Healthcare Europe 2006/7.

2006

September 25 – Annette O'Connor Receives the Ottawa Life Sciences Council Health Innovation Award

The 13th Annual OLSC Achievement Awards Dinner honoured outstanding achievements in the Ottawa region's life sciences sector at the Ottawa Congress Centre. The Health Innovation Award recognizes Dr. O'Connor's work in developing resources that help patients and health practitioners make difficult health care decisions and improve patient participation.

August 26 – IPDAS Results Published

Glyn Elwyn, Annette O'Connor, Dawn Stacey, Robert Volk, Adrian Edwards, Angela Coulter, Richard Thomson, Alexandra Barratt, Michael Barry, Steven Bernstein, Phyllis Butow, Aileen Clarke, Vikki Entwistle, Deb Feldman-Stewart, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, Nora Moumjid, Al Mulley, Cornelia Ruland, Karen Sepucha, Alan Sykes, Tim Whelan, on behalf of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration. Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process. British Medical Journal. 2006 Aug 26;333(7565):417.

June 1 – Dr. France Légaré named Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care

Dr. Légaré's research focuses on identifying the needs of primary healthcare professionals to develop the active participation of patients in shared decision making. Dr. Légaré will also work to assess the impact of shared decision making on healthcare professionals and their patients. For information, visit Dr. Légaré's profile on the CRC Web site.

March – Revised RNAO Client Centred Care Best Practice Guidelines includes Patient Decision Support

The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) released a supplement to the 2002 version of the Client Centred Care Best Practice Guidelines. Within the supplement, the importance of decision support to the therapeutic relationship is acknowledged and nurses are encouraged to: a) recognize the need for decision support; and b) provide decision support using patient decision aids and decision coaching. Clear definitions are provided for decision coaching, decision quality, patient decision aids, and quality of decision making process.

2005

November 18 – Evidence Report for the World Health Organization - Health Evidence Network

Annette O'Connor and Dawn Stacey author the report for WHO-HEN entitled "Should patient decision aids (PtDAs) be introduced in the health care system?"

September

Annette O'Connor elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences as Fellow

June 14-16 – ISDM

The 3rd International Shared Decision Making Conference featured the theme "Implementing shared decision making in diverse health care systems and cultures". The Ottawa conference built on the accomplishments of the first and second conferences, in Oxford (2001) and Swansea (2003).