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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
Volume 63, Issue 9, Pages 1805-1811Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13615
Keywords
shared decision-making; communication tool; acute care surgery; palliative care
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- NCATS NIH HHS [KL2TR000428, KL2 TR000428, UL1 TR000427] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMHD NIH HHS [5P60MD003428, P60 MD003428] Funding Source: Medline
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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate a communication tool called Best Case/Worst Case (BC/WC) based on an established conceptual model of shared decision-making. DESIGN: Focus group study. SETTING: Older adults (four focus groups) and surgeons (two focus groups) using modified questions from the Decision Aid Acceptability Scale and the Decisional Conflict Scale to evaluate and revise the communication tool. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals aged 60 and older recruited from senior centers (n = 37) and surgeons from academic and private practices in Wisconsin (n = 17). MEASUREMENTS: Qualitative content analysis was used to explore themes and concepts that focus group respondents identified. RESULTS: Seniors and surgeons praised the tool for the unambiguous illustration of multiple treatment options and the clarity gained from presentation of an array of treatment outcomes. Participants noted that the tool provides an opportunity for in-the-moment, preference-based deliberation about options and a platform for further discussion with other clinicians and loved ones. Older adults worried that the format of the tool was not universally accessible for people with different educational backgrounds, and surgeons had concerns that the tool was vulnerable to physicians' subjective biases. CONCLUSION: The BC/WC tool is a novel decision support intervention that may help facilitate difficult decision-making for older adults and their physicians when considering invasive, acute medical treatments such as surgery.
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