Karen R Sepucha
Biographic Data
| ID | 7215951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen R Sepucha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sepucha |
| SIGNATURE | SEPUCHA K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Health Decision Sciences Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Let’s Require Patients to Review a High-quality Decision Aid Before Receiving Important Tests and Treatments
THE PROBLEM When providing medical care, choices often must be made among 2 or more medically reasonable options. In the United States, and elsewhere, most of those decisions are made by physicians, with patients being relatively uninformed and uninvolved, sometimes not even knowing more than 1 option existed.1–3 Many prominent groups have called for more shared decision making, asking physicians to make efforts to provide patients faced with a d…
Development of instruments to measure the quality of breast cancer treatment decisions
Background Women with early‐stage breast cancer face a multitude of decisions. The quality of a decision can be measured by the extent to which the treatment reflects what is most important to an informed patient. Reliable and valid measures of patients’ knowledge and their goals and concerns related to breast cancer treatments are needed to assess the decision quality. Objective To identify a set of key facts and goals relevant to each of three …
Implementing breast cancer decision aids in community sites
Objective To assess the feasibility of implementing four patient decision aids (PtDAs) for early stage breast cancer treatment decisions into routine clinical care in community settings. Background There is very limited information available about implementing decision aids into routine clinical practice and most of this information is based on academic centres; more information is needed about implementing them into routine clinical practice in …
A systematic review of information in decision aids
Objective We completed a systematic review of information reported as included in decision aids (DAs) for adult patients, to determine if it is complete, balanced and accurate. Search strategy DAs were identified using the Cochrane Database of DAs and searches of four electronic databases using the terms: ‘decision aid’; shared decision making’ and ‘patients’; ‘multimedia or leaflets or pamphlets or videos and patients and decision making’. Addit…
Decision aids in routine practice
Background Many decision aids have been developed to help patients make treatment and screening decisions; however, little is known about implementing them into routine clinical practice. Objective To assess the feasibility of implementing a patient decision aid (PtDA) for the early stage breast cancer surgical decision into routine clinical care. Design Structured individual interviews. Setting and participants A convenience sample of providers …
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Decision aids in routine practice
Background Many decision aids have been developed to help patients make treatment and screening decisions; however, little is known about implementing them into routine clinical practice. Objective To assess the feasibility of implementing a patient decision aid (PtDA) for the early stage breast cancer surgical decision into routine clinical care. Design Structured individual interviews. Setting and participants A convenience sample of providers …
A systematic review of information in decision aids
Objective We completed a systematic review of information reported as included in decision aids (DAs) for adult patients, to determine if it is complete, balanced and accurate. Search strategy DAs were identified using the Cochrane Database of DAs and searches of four electronic databases using the terms: ‘decision aid’; shared decision making’ and ‘patients’; ‘multimedia or leaflets or pamphlets or videos and patients and decision making’. Addit…
Implementing breast cancer decision aids in community sites
Objective To assess the feasibility of implementing four patient decision aids (PtDAs) for early stage breast cancer treatment decisions into routine clinical care in community settings. Background There is very limited information available about implementing decision aids into routine clinical practice and most of this information is based on academic centres; more information is needed about implementing them into routine clinical practice in …
Development of instruments to measure the quality of breast cancer treatment decisions
Background Women with early‐stage breast cancer face a multitude of decisions. The quality of a decision can be measured by the extent to which the treatment reflects what is most important to an informed patient. Reliable and valid measures of patients’ knowledge and their goals and concerns related to breast cancer treatments are needed to assess the decision quality. Objective To identify a set of key facts and goals relevant to each of three …
Let’s Require Patients to Review a High-quality Decision Aid Before Receiving Important Tests and Treatments
THE PROBLEM When providing medical care, choices often must be made among 2 or more medically reasonable options. In the United States, and elsewhere, most of those decisions are made by physicians, with patients being relatively uninformed and uninvolved, sometimes not even knowing more than 1 option existed.1–3 Many prominent groups have called for more shared decision making, asking physicians to make efforts to provide patients faced with a d…
Family medicine (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (4 works) · Alternative medicine (3 works) · Breast cancer (3 works) · Cancer (3 works) · Decision aids (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)