About this Research Topic
Patient decision aids provide a promising means to empower patients to prepare and participate in Shared Decision Making (SDM) with health care professionals. A wide range of clinically validated and non-validated, digital and non-digital patient decision aids continue to be developed for use in diverse settings and clinical interventions. The end users of a given aid may be heterogeneous in their needs, abilities, backgrounds and personal characteristics.
Many patient decision aids are developed with the aim of helping patients clarify and communicate their subjective values and preferences in relation to the medical choices at hand. Knowledge of these values and preferences can help patients and health care professionals determine the medical intervention that is right for the patient.
Digital health technologies present unique opportunities for creating new ways to advance the design, adoption, usage and evaluation of patient-centred decision aids and support the clarification and communication of subjective values and preferences. However, there is a dearth of systematic research on these opportunities.
This Research Topic focuses on the current use of and the opportunities that digital technologies present for furthering the design, development, deployment and usefulness of patient decision aids.
Potential themes include, but are not limited to:
1) Digital technology and patient decision aids,
2) New approaches, designs, developments and innovations,
3) Human factors in elucidating subjective values and preferences,
4) Awareness and real-world use of digital patient decision aids,
5) Usability and acceptability of digital patient decision aids,
6) Current and potential applications in different settings,
7) Barriers and facilitators to use of digital technology in SDM,
8) Future possibilities and challenges of patient decision aids and digital technology,
9) Inclusion, diversity, and accessibility of patient decision aids with digital technology, and,
10) Ethical, technical and regulatory (design) considerations.
This Research Topic welcomes original research, review, method and theory, and perspective articles that address the diversity of themes around digital health technologies and human factors in patient decision aids. Brief research reports and mini reviews are also encouraged. Articles types should be selected that correspond with the stage of research and scope of the contribution.
Many patient decision aids are developed with the aim of helping patients clarify and communicate their subjective values and preferences in relation to the medical choices at hand. Knowledge of these values and preferences can help patients and health care professionals determine the medical intervention that is right for the patient.
Digital health technologies present unique opportunities for creating new ways to advance the design, adoption, usage and evaluation of patient-centred decision aids and support the clarification and communication of subjective values and preferences. However, there is a dearth of systematic research on these opportunities.
This Research Topic focuses on the current use of and the opportunities that digital technologies present for furthering the design, development, deployment and usefulness of patient decision aids.
Potential themes include, but are not limited to:
1) Digital technology and patient decision aids,
2) New approaches, designs, developments and innovations,
3) Human factors in elucidating subjective values and preferences,
4) Awareness and real-world use of digital patient decision aids,
5) Usability and acceptability of digital patient decision aids,
6) Current and potential applications in different settings,
7) Barriers and facilitators to use of digital technology in SDM,
8) Future possibilities and challenges of patient decision aids and digital technology,
9) Inclusion, diversity, and accessibility of patient decision aids with digital technology, and,
10) Ethical, technical and regulatory (design) considerations.
This Research Topic welcomes original research, review, method and theory, and perspective articles that address the diversity of themes around digital health technologies and human factors in patient decision aids. Brief research reports and mini reviews are also encouraged. Articles types should be selected that correspond with the stage of research and scope of the contribution.
Keywords: Patient decision aids, shared decision making, values and preferences, digital health, human factors, technology
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