Supporting consumer decision making

Our consumer-focussed projects aim to comply with International Standards for Patient Decision Aids (IPDAS). Our group members participated in the international collaboration that developed these standards. Our screening decision aids aim to be consistent with our article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2004 and our paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1999.

View the following current projects:

• Australian Screening Mammography Decision Aid Trial
• Mammography Decision Aid for women over 70 years
• Online Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) screening decision aid
• An interactive decision tool for preventive health-check activities in general practice
• HPV testing Decision Aid for women with Minor Atypia on Pap smear (The IMAP Study). Assessment of Psychosocial and QOL Outcomes
• Incorporating QOL data into informed decision making
• A Decision Aid for the management of pain in labour and childbirth
• A Decision Aid in the management of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer
• Tools for improving informed consent
• Improving informed consent to clinical trials: A Decision Aid for women invited to participate in a breast cancer prevention trial (IBIS-II)
• Decision Aids for patients with incurable metastatic colorectal and breast cancer
• Oncologists’ views about shared decision making
• Low Literacy Faecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) Screening Decision Aid
• Cluster-randomised trial of a complex intervention for addressing parental concerns about MMR vaccination