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The Learning Curve for Shared Decision-making in Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis

Monday, February 3, 2020

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: JAMA Cardiology

Source URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2759797

Author(s)

Megan Coylewright, Elizabeth O’Neill, Ariel Sherman, Megan Gerling, Kaavya Adam, Keren Xu, Stuart W. Grande, Harold L. Dauerman, Shayne E. Dodge, Navjot Kaur Sobti, Catherine H. Saunders, Stacey L. Schott, Glyn Elwyn, Marie-Anne Durand

Use of a novel decision aid for patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis resulted in greater patient knowledge and satisfaction, although decisional conflict was unchanged. Physicians, on the other hand, felt that the aid was not understood by elderly patients, and believed that they used shared decision-making in their usual practice, without the use of a decision aid.