Decision Aids to Facilitate Shared Decision Making in Practice
Decision aids are evidence-based tools to augment patient-parent-clinician communication to ensure that:
- Patients and parents receive standardized information on the pros and cons of the medically reasonable options in a way that can be easily understood
- Patient and parent preferences are elicited about important trade-offs among the various options
- The option selected is congruent with the families’ well-informed preferences
