Decision aids for informed consent vs usual care: Accurate risk perception
Patient decision aids leads to higher accurate risk perceptions ‐ all studies Based on the accuracy of… compared with usual care (high certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Patient decision aids vs usual care Accurate risk perceptions ‐ all studies Based on the accuracy of perceived outcome probabilities according to the percentage of individuals whose judgments corresponded to the scientific evidence about the chances of an outcome for similar people.... · adults considering treatment or screening decisions Patient decision aids leads to higher accurate risk perceptions ‐ all studies Based on the accuracy of… compared with usual care (high certainty). Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.94 [1.61, 2.34] | 25 studies · 7796 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.