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Shared decision making in cardiology: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Panagiota Mitropoulou1, Nicolai Grüner-Hegge2, Johannes Reinhold3,4
1Cardiology Department, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
Insights
Interventions to improve shared decision making (SDM) in cardiology significantly reduce patient decisional conflict and enhance their knowledge. These findings support patient-centered care in cardiology practice.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Health Services Research
- Patient-Centered Care
Background:
- Shared decision making (SDM) is crucial for patient-centered care in cardiology.
- Evaluating interventions that enhance SDM and patient outcomes is essential.
- Decisional conflict and patient knowledge are key indicators of effective SDM.
Approach:
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Searched major electronic databases (Embase, Cochrane, PubMed, Web of Science) up to January 2021.
- Included 18 studies with 4419 patients, focusing on primary outcomes like decisional conflict and secondary outcomes like patient knowledge.
Key Points:
- Interventions to improve SDM significantly reduced decisional conflict (SMD -0.211).
- Interventions also significantly increased patient knowledge (SMD 0.476).
- These effects were observed when compared to standard care.
Conclusions:
- Interventions promoting SDM are effective in cardiology.
- These interventions successfully reduce decisional conflict and improve patient knowledge.
- Wider implementation of SDM interventions is recommended for patient-centered cardiology practice.
Objectives:
To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to improve shared decision making (SDM) in cardiology with particular focus on patient-centred outcomes such as decisional conflict.
Methods:
We searched Embase (OVID), the Cochrane library, PubMed and Web of Science electronic databases from inception to January 2021 for randomised controlled trials that investigated the effects of interventions to increase SDM in cardiology. The primary outcomes were decisional conflict, decisional anxiety, decisional satisfaction or decisional regret; a secondary outcome was knowledge gained by the patients.
Results:
Eighteen studies which reported on at least one outcome measure were identified, including a total of 4419 patients. Interventions to increase SDM had a significant effect on reducing decisional conflict (standardised mean difference (SMD) -0.211, 95% CI -0.316 to -0.107) and increasing patient knowledge (SMD 0.476, 95% CI 0.351 to 0.600) compared with standard care.
Conclusions:
Interventions to increase SDM are effective in reducing decisional conflict and increasing patient knowledge in the field of cardiology. Such interventions are helpful in supporting patient-centred healthcare and should be implemented in wider cardiology practice.
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