Patient Preferences in Health Care Decision Making
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	As patients increasingly become partners in their healthcare decisions, it is important for clinicians to understand the principles of Shared Decision Making (SDM). The information on this site has been developed to provide an overview about the tools, methods and underlying theories related to the elicitation of patient preferences and shared decision making in health care. Shared Decision Making (SDM) What is Shared Decision Making? Why is Shared Decision Making important? What is a "good" health care decision? Methods to Measure Patient Preferences Utility Based Techniques Non-Utility Based Techniques Constructing Health States Decision Support Decision Aids for shared decision making Purpose Evidence of Effectiveness Common components and formats Guidelines to develop patient decision aids Evaluation measures Theories Behavioral Decision Theories Normative Decision Theories Theories on Shared Decision Making

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