April 3, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Austin FraktResources for better health care decisions:
- Foundation Decision Aids (Shared Decision-Making® programs), Informed Medical Decisions Foundation
- Center for Shared Decision Making, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
- Patient Decision Aids, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- The Cochrane Collaboration
Why be uninformed?
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by Paul Van de Water on April 3rd, 2012 at 17:36
Thanks for posting this. Potentially very useful personally, as well as professionally.
by Anne B on April 6th, 2012 at 12:48
I followed some of the links – only to find that the IPDAS Checklist (http://ipdas.ohri.ca/IPDAS_checklist.pdf ) does not even mention COST as information that should be considered in decision making. As long as nearly all of the “skin in the game” is that of the insurance company (and I think the doctors don’t even know a lot of the actual costs), even those of us who would like to do our part to reign in costs are severely handicapped.