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ArticleMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2021

Feasibility of Rapidly Developing and Widely Disseminating Patient Decision Aids to Respond to Urgent Decisional Needs due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Dawn Stacey, Claire Ludwig, Patrick Archambault, Kevin Babulic, Nancy Edwards, Josée Lavoie, Samir Sinha, Annette M O'Connor

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Article in Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A decision aid to support family carers of people living with dementia towards the end-of-life: Coproduction process, outcome and reflections.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021
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  3. Process for Rapid Co-development of a Decision Aid Prototype for Population-wide Cancer Screening.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025
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  11. Systematic Development of Patient Decision Aids: An Update from the IPDAS Collaboration.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Dawn StaceyUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2681-741X
Claire LudwigUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Patrick ArchambaultCentre de recherche du Centre intégré de santé et de services de santé de Chaudiére-Appalaches and Université Laval.ORCID 0000-0002-5090-6439
Kevin BabulicChamplain LHIN, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Nancy EdwardsUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Josée LavoieRoyal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Samir SinhaUniversity of Toronto/Ryerson University.
Annette M O'ConnorUniversity of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
University of Ottawa · CACentre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Chaudière-Appalaches · CAChamplain Regional College · CARoyal Ottawa Mental Health Centre · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

CIHR 143237CIHR 370937
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To meet urgent decisional needs of retirement/nursing home residents and their families, our interdisciplinary stakeholder team rapidly developed and disseminated patient decision aids (PtDAs) regarding leaving one's residence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The development steps were as follows: identify urgent decisional needs, develop PtDAs using the Ottawa Decision Support Framework template and minimal International PtDA Standards, obtain stakeholder feedback, broadly disseminate, and incorporate user feedback. Within 2 wk, we developed 2 PtDAs for retirement and nursing home living environments that were informed by decisional needs (identified from public responses to related media reports), current pandemic regulations/guidance, and recent systematic reviews. Within 3 wk of their dissemination (websites, international PtDA inventory, Twitter, Facebook, media interviews), the PtDAs were downloaded 10,000 times, and user feedback was positive. Our expert team showed feasible rapid development and wide dissemination of PtDAs to respond to urgent decisional needs. Development efficiencies included access to a well-tested theory-based PtDA template, recent evidence syntheses, and values-based public responses to media reports. Future research includes methods for rapidly collecting user feedback, facilitating implementation, and measuring use and outcomes.

Indexed as

Decision MakingDecision Support TechniquesHomes for the AgedNursing HomesPatient ParticipationPatient TransferAgedAged, 80 and overCOVID-19FamilyFeasibility StudiesHealth Services Needs and DemandHumansPandemicsRetirementSARS-CoV-2decisional needsdevelopment methodsdisseminationOttawa Decision Support Frameworkpatient decision aidshared decision making

Identifiers

PMID33300438
PMCPMC7879222
OpenAlexW3112360353

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