Harnessing Information Technology to Inform Patients Facing Routine Decisions: Cancer Screening as a Test Case

摘要

PURPOSETechnology could transform routine decision making by anticipating patients’ information needs, assessing where patients are with decisions and preferences, personalizing educational experiences, facilitating patient-clinician information exchange, and supporting follow-up. This study evaluated whether patients and clinicians will use such a decision module and its impact on care, using 3 cancer screening decisions as test cases.