Decision aids for informed consent vs usual care: Participation in decision making: clinician‐controlled decision making ‐ all studies Assessed soon after consultation with clinician
Patient decision aids leads to lower participation in decision‐making: clinician‐controlled… 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 Participation in decision‐making: clinician‐controlled decision‐making ‐ all studies Based on the proportion of participants who indicated a passive role in decision‐making where the decision was primarily made by the clinician. Assessed soon afte... · adults considering treatment or screening decisions Patient decision aids leads to lower participation in decision‐making: clinician‐controlled… compared with usual care (high certainty). Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.72 [0.59, 0.88] | 21 studies · 4348 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.