The October 2021 issue of Medical Decision Making (Volume 41, Issue 7) is a special issue that consists of a set of papers commissioned by the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration reviewing and documenting the evidence base related to the design and implementation of patient decision aids. The IPDAS Update (2.0) papers are updates and expansions of the set of IPDAS background document chapters published in 2012 & related journal articles published in 2013.
The 2021 IPDAS special issue includes 13 scientific review articles providing the latest evidence on 11 core IPDAS domains: development process, providing balanced information, communicating probabilities of outcomes, clarifying values, using personal stories, guidance and decision coaching, disclosing conflicts of interest, health literacy, basing information on scientific evidence, measuring effectiveness, and implementation of patient decision aids. In addition, the issue includes 2 editorials providing context and history regarding the IPDAS collaboration and commenting on its future.
To encourage broader dissemination of this important information, many of the papers in this special issue are either published under Creative Commons license (freely shareable with attribution) or are free to download on the SAGE website.
Editorials / Commentaries
- The International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration: Evidence Update 2.0 (free-to-download)
- Commentary on History of IPDAS (free-to-download)
Review Articles
- Systematic Development of Patient Decision Aids: An Update from the IPDAS Collaboration. (free-to-download)
- Basing Information on Comprehensive, Critically Appraised, and Up-to-Date Syntheses of the Scientific Evidence: An Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards. (free-to-download)
- Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Health and Medicine: Current Evidence and Implications for Patient Decision Aid Development.
- Providing Balanced Information about Options in Patient Decision Aids: An Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards. (free-to-download)
- Clarifying Values: An Updated and Expanded Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (open access, CC-BY license)
- Current Best Practice for Presenting Probabilities in Patient Decision Aids: Fundamental Principles. (free-to-download)
- Current Challenges when Using Numbers in Patient Decision Aids: Advanced Concepts. (free-to-download)
- Addressing Health Literacy in Patient Decision Aids: An Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Patient Decision Aids for Disadvantaged Populations: Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IDPAS). (free-to-download)
- Do Personal Stories Make Patient Decision Aids More Effective? An Update from the International Patient Decision Aids Standards. (free-to-download)
- What Works in Implementing Patient Decision Aids in Routine Clinical Settings? A Rapid Realist Review and Update from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards Collaboration. (open access, CC-BY-NC license)
- Guidance and/or Decision Coaching with Patient Decision Aids: Scoping Reviews to Inform the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS). (free-to-download)
- Are We Improving? Update and Critical Appraisal of the Reporting of Decision Process and Quality Measures in Trials Evaluating Patient Decision Aids. (open access, CC-BY license)