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2007 - Decision Making Psychology and Decision Support
2008 - Interprofessional Education in Decision Support
2009 - Decision Support and Complexity: Multiple Conditions, Attributes & Options
2010 - Economic, Legal and Political Issues in Decision Support
What are the Dartmouth Summer Institutes on Informed Patient Choice (SIIPC)?
The Dartmouth Summer Institutes on Informed Patient Choice are held annually.
Their overall goal for all of the Summer Institutes is to identify and mentor the next generation of scientists who are prepared to investigate key basic and applied problems in the field of patients' health care decision making -- with a particular emphasis on the provision of decision support (DS) using patients' decision aids (PtDAS).
What is "Decision Support"?
In preference-sensitive health care situations, there is no single "best" therapeutic action that's indicated for all patients.
Therefore, the goal is to help patients make an informed, preference-based choice among the several relevant therapeutic options.
"Decision Support" (DS) is a systematic, theory-based clinical strategy for helping individuals who wish to be involved in making these kinds of preference-sensitive choices to participate in this decision-making process.
What are "Patients' Decision Aids"?
"Patients' Decision Aids" (PtDAs) are tools used in the process of providing decision support.
PtDAs differ from conventional education materials, which present information about a recommended therapeutic intervention.
Instead, PtDAs are tools specifically designed to help patients choose among 2 or more options.
What's the Strategy for Planning Each Year's SIIPC?
Each year, the Planning Committee / Lead Faculty:
- Identifies a particular key scientific theme in the field of DS/PtDAs, and
- Invites fundamental and applied scientists who are world leaders in the thematic area to identify the most pressing scientific opportunities in the field of patients' health care decision making, and to outline how best to prepare the next generation of scientists to seize those opportunities.
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