A family carer decision support intervention for people with advanced dementia residing in a nursing home: a study protocol for an international advance care planning intervention (mySupport study) by Andrew J E Harding, Julie Doherty, Laura Bavelaar, Catherine Walshe, Nancy Preston, Sharon Kaasalainen, Tamara Sussman, Jenny T van der Steen, Nicola Cornally, Irene Hartigan, Martin Loucka, Karolina Vlckova, Paola Di Giulio, Silvia Gonella, Kevin Brazil, On behalf of the mySupport Study Group

“…This implementation study proposes to; 1) adopt and apply the intervention internationally; and, 2) train nursing home staff to deliver the family carer decision support intervention. Methods This study will employ a multiple case study design to allow an understanding of the implementation process and to identify the factors which determine how well the intervention will work as intended. …”
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A principal components analysis of factors associated with successful implementation of an LVAD decision support tool by Kristin M. Kostick, Meredith Trejo, Arvind Bhimaraj, Andrew Civitello, Jonathan Grinstein, Douglas Horstmanshof, Ulrich P. Jorde, Matthias Loebe, Mandeep R. Mehra, Nasir Z. Sulemanjee, Vinay Thohan, Barry H. Trachtenberg, Nir Uriel, Robert J. Volk, Jerry D. Estep, J. S. Blumenthal-Barby

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Coping strategies and immune neglect in affective forecasting: Direct evidence and key moderators by Michael Hoerger

“…Implications for decision-support interventions are discussed.…”
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Designing healthcare information technology to catalyse change in clinical care by William Lester, Adrian Zai, Richard Grant, Henry Chueh

“…However, current computerised reminder and decision support interventions directed at changing physician behaviour have had only a limited and variable effect on clinical outcomes. …”
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Comparison of clinical knowledge management capabilities of commercially-available and leading internally-developed electronic health records by Nichol W Paul, Evans R Scott, Simonaitis Linas, Meltzer Seth, Wright Adam, Sittig Dean F, Ash Joan S, Middleton Blackford

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>All of the vendors and institutions have multiple modules capable of providing clinical decision support interventions to clinicians. The majority of the systems were capable of performing almost all of the key knowledge management functions we identified.…”
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A systematic review of chronic disease management interventions in primary care by Rebecca Reynolds, Sarah Dennis, Iqbal Hasan, Jan Slewa, Winnie Chen, David Tian, Sangeetha Bobba, Nicholas Zwar

“…Delivery System Design interventions (22.6% of studies) showed benefits in both professional and patient-level outcomes for a narrow range of conditions. Decision Support interventions (21.3% of studies) had impact limited to professional-level outcomes, in particular use of medications. …”
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2279 Understanding care delivered to patients with a possible concussion at an urban level 1 trauma center by Chet C. Zalesky, David W. Wright, Sanam Patel, Rachel K. Patzer

“…These results define the current reality of mTBI treatment in the Emergency Department and show the need for further experimental studies targeted at physician decision support interventions to improve mTBI care.…”
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Adoption and sustainability of decision support for patients facing health decisions: an implementation case study in nursing by Pomey Marie-Pascale, Stacey Dawn, O'Connor Annette M, Graham Ian D

“…However, patient decision support interventions have not been widely implemented and little is known about effective models for delivering them to patients. …”
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How family caregivers of persons with advanced cancer assist with upstream healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study. by J Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Deborah Ejem, Rachel Wells, Amber E Barnato, Richard A Taylor, Gabrielle B Rocque, Yasemin E Turkman, Matthew Kenny, Nataliya V Ivankova, Marie A Bakitas, Michelle Y Martin

“…Optimizing these roles may represent novel targets for early decision support interventions for family caregivers.…”
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Exploring the health‐related decision‐making experiences of people with chronic kidney disease and their caregivers: A qualitative study by Shena Gazaway, Orlando Gutierrez, Rachel Wells, Tamara Nix‐Parker, Claretha Lyas, Shawona Daniel, Katina Lang‐Lindsey, Tara Bryant, Richard Knight, James N. Odom

“…Conclusion Decision‐support interventions must train patients and caregivers to be empowered participants in answer‐seeking behaviours upstream of advanced illness. …”
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Engaging Patients with Late-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Shared Decision Making about Treatment by Ronald E. Myers, Shailesh M. Advani, Pamela Myers, Preethi Selvan, Gregory Garber, Brooke Worster, Neal Flomenberg, Andrew Chapman, Ralph Zinner

“…Few treatment decision support interventions (DSIs) are available to engage patients diagnosed with late-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in treatment shared decision making (SDM). …”
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Interventions supporting cancer patients in making decisions regarding participation in clinical trials - a systematic review by Line Hillersdal, Zandra Engelbak Nielsen, Ane Taudorf Nørmark, Ann Knoop, Karin Piil

“…Limited evidence exists on the effectiveness of decision support interventions to improve the experience of support in adult patients with cancer. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing shared decision-making in clinical practice: a systematic review of health professionals' perceptions by Gravel Karine, Légaré France, Graham Ian D

“…Shared decision-making was defined as a joint process of decision making between health professionals and patients, or as decision support interventions including decision aids, or as the active participation of patients in decision making. …”
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Dual equipoise shared decision making: definitions for decision and behaviour support interventions by Rollnick Stephen, Frosch Dominick, Elwyn Glyn

“…Therefore, situations where dual equipoise exists (or not) help to clarify the definitions of two classes of support, namely, decision and behaviour change support interventions. Decision support interventions help people think about choices they face; they describe where and why choice exists, in short, conditions of dual equipoise; they provide information about options, including, where reasonable, the option of taking no action. …”
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Factors influencing decisions people with motor neuron disease make about gastrostomy placement and ventilation: A qualitative evidence synthesis by Sean White, Alicia O'Cathain, Vanessa Halliday, Liz Croot, Christopher J. McDermott

“…Decisions are the consequence of interactions with multiple external agents, including HCPs treading a complex ethical path when trying to improve health outcomes while respecting pwMND right to autonomy. Future decision support interventions that address the emotional response and seek to support autonomy have the potential to enable pwMND to make informed and timely decisions about gastrostomy placement and ventilation. …”
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Organizational- and system-level characteristics that influence implementation of shared decision-making and strategies to address them — a scoping review by Isabelle Scholl, Allison LaRussa, Pola Hahlweg, Sarah Kobrin, Glyn Elwyn

“…We included publications reporting on projects that promoted implementation of SDM or other decision support interventions in routine healthcare. We screened titles and abstracts, and assessed full texts for eligibility. …”
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Facilitators and Barriers to Interacting With Clinical Decision Support in the ICU: A Mixed-Methods Approach by Adrian Wong, PharmD, MPH, FCCM, FCCP, Lucas A. Berenbrok, PharmD, MS, Lauren Snader, PharmD, Yu Hyeon Soh, BS, Vishakha K. Kumar, MD, MBA, Muhammad Ali Javed, MD, David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FCCM, Sandra L. Kane-Gill, PharmD, MSc, FCCM, FCCP

“…Clinicians (pharmacists, physicians) identified via survey, with recent experience with clinical decision support. INTERVENTIONS:. An initial survey was developed to evaluate clinician perspectives on their interactions with CDSS. …”
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Predictors of Decision Regret among Caregivers of Older Canadians Receiving Home Care: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey by Tania Lognon, Amédé Gogovor, Karine V. Plourde, Paul Holyoke, Claudia Lai, Emmanuelle Aubin, Kathy Kastner, Carolyn Canfield, Ron Beleno, Dawn Stacey, Louis-Paul Rivest, France Légaré

“…Our results will inform future decision support interventions. Highlights This is one of the first studies to assess decision regret among caregivers of older adults receiving home and community care services and to identify their most frequent difficult decisions. …”
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Improving partnerships with family members of ICU patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Daren K. Heyland, Judy Davidson, Yoanna Skrobik, Amanda Roze des Ordons, Lauren J. Van Scoy, Andrew G. Day, Virginia Vandall-Walker, Andrea P. Marshall

“…We hope that the nutrition and decision-support interventions implemented and evaluated in our study will contribute to the evidentiary basis for best family partnered care pathways focused on optimizing the quality of ICU care for patients with life-threatening illness and their families. …”
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Advance Care Planning Website for People With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers: Protocol for a Development and Usability Study by Fanny Monnet, Charlèss Dupont, Tinne Smets, Aline De Vleminck, Chantal Van Audenhove, Lieve Van den Block, Lara Pivodic

“…MethodsThe development of the website is based on a process map for the development of web-based decision support interventions and on the Medical Research Council framework for complex intervention development and evaluation. …”
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