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Helping Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Make Treatment Decisions: Statin Choice Randomized Trial

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Poor quality of information transfer about the benefits and risks of statin drug use may result in patients not making informed decisions that they can act on in a timely fashion. METHODS: The effect of a decision aid about statin drugs on treatment decision making in 98 patients with diabetes was determined in a cluster randomized trial of decision aid vs control pamphlet, with concealed allocation, blinding of participants to …

Authors

Weymiller AJ; Montori VM; Jones LA; Gafni A; Guyatt GH; Bryant SC; Christianson TJH; Mullan RJ; Smith SA

Volume

167

Pagination

pp. 1076-1082

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

May 28, 2007

DOI

10.1001/archinte.167.10.1076

Conference proceedings

JAMA Internal Medicine

Issue

10

ISSN

2168-6106