DECIDE and SHARE-IT: shared decision making v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development of generic decision aids linked to recommendations in GRADE guidelines to promote shared decision making in the clinical encounter: user-testing and feedback
IRAS ID
168171
Contact name
Shaun Treweek
Contact email
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
REB #13-373, Canadian ethics: Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board approval number; IIBSP-DCP-2014-002, Spanish ethics: Comité de Ética de Investigación Clínica de la Fundació Gestió Sanitària del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau de Barcelona; 2013/1630, Norwegian ethics: Regional komité for medisinsk og helsefaglig forskningsetikk (REK sør-øst)
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 10 months, 28 days
Research summary
Shared decision making is the process in which patients and clinicians make decisions together, as partners, using best available evidence. Discussing the evidence regarding treatment options is challenging but can be helped by the use of decision aids. However, most current decision aids are time-consuming to produce, unwieldy in real practice, and can be misleading as they are often not based on the best evidence, or become rapidly outdated. We seek to overcome the limitations of current decision aids by producing them directly from trustworthy clinical practice guidelines, and display them on desktop computers or tablets (eg. an iPad) so that patients and clinicians can look at the same up-to-date evidence together.
We are applying for approval to develop and test several versions of these decision aids for different types of decisions and contexts so as to be able to generalize their production. We will test each version by observing and recording how they are used in real consultations. We will then conduct short interviews with patients and clinicians separately to get their impressions on the quality of the interaction and their feedback on the decision aids. The work is being done as part of an international collaboration involving researchers in Scotland, Canada, Norway and Spain.
An article and a video showing how the tool can be used in a consultation is available at http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.g7624
REC name
South West - Frenchay Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/SW/0127
Date of REC Opinion
15 May 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion