Decision Aid

Use of a decision aid tool along with free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels after thyroidectomy may help patients reach a proper dosage of levothyroxine replacement therapy faster, researchers reported in Thyroid.

Published results showed use of an artificial intelligence-enabled decision aid significantly improved decision quality, level of shared decision-making, satisfaction and physical limitations among patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Decision aids for osteoporosis currently lack quality standards and do not meet patient needs, results of a mixed-methods study showed.

Women older than 75 years who were provided with a mammography screening decision aid before visiting their primary care physician were more likely to make more informed screening decisions than those who did not receive the decision aid, according to randomized clinical trial results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.