Скачать или смотреть Undetermined impact of patient decision support interventions on healthcare costs and savings

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There has been increasing interest in implementing patient decision support interventions. They definitely help inform decisions, and patients tend to opt for more conservative treatment choices.

Evidence from randomized trials shows that these interventions increase patients' knowledge, produce more accurate expectations, and lead to treatment choices that are more congruent with patients' informed preferences. There is, in short, an ethical imperative to support their use in practice.

There have also been claims that they have the capacity to generate healthcare savings, but these are less well substantiated, although prominent in many commentaries.

The researchers here set out to perform a systematic review of studies that assessed the potential of patient decision support interventions (decision aids) to generate savings.