Patient treatment decision aids (PDAs) are support tools designed to provide patients with relevant information to help them make informed decisions about their healthcare.
Decision aids make explicit the decision that needs to be made, provide information about treatment options and outcomes, and clarify personal values. They are designed to complement, rather than replace, counseling from a health practitioner. When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, videos, or interactive tools to help them make treatment choices, they are more knowledgeable and satisfied with their care.
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW FOR FREE TREATMENT DECISION AID TOOLS.
Intermountain Healthcare Decision Aids. is a United States not-for-profit healthcare system with 385 clinics and 33 hospitals in the Intermountain West.
- Breathing Help Decision Aid (pdf)
- CPR Help Decision Aid (pdf)
- Heart Failure Decision Aid (pdf)
- Tube Feeding Decision Aid (pdf)
- Breathing Help Decision Aid
- CPR Help Decision Aid
- Heart Failure Decision Aid
- Tube Feeding Decision Aid
The OPTIMISTIC Project was a grant funded project which ended in 2020. Visit the IU RESPECT Center for background about the project.
- CPR or No CPR: What you should know (pdf)
- Tube Feeding: What you should know (pdf)
- Help with Breathing: What you should know (pdf)
- Antibiotics: What you should know (pdf)
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute explores and shares better ways to help patients and clinicians make "tough" healthcare decisions that may have multiple options, uncertain outcomes, and benefits and harms that people value differently. The website offers a wealth of information for practitioners and patients including an interactive A-Z decision aid search tool, an implementation tool kit, and training on “decision-coaching.”
