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Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
Unintended pregnancies are an important public health issue. Long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs) are reliable, safe, highly effective methods for most women; however they are underutilized in the United States. Shared decision aids were added to usual care in five public health fami...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare3020205 |
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author | George, Tracy P. DeCristofaro, Claire Dumas, Bonnie P. Murphy, Pamela F. |
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description | Unintended pregnancies are an important public health issue. Long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs) are reliable, safe, highly effective methods for most women; however they are underutilized in the United States. Shared decision aids were added to usual care in five public health family planning clinics in the Southeastern United States, staffed by advance practice nurses and registered nurses. All five sites showed an increase in the use of LARCs during the time period that shared decision aids were used (results statistically significant to p < 0.001). It is important for women to make informed choices about contraception, and shared decision aids can be utilized to support this decision making. This resource has been adopted for statewide use in all public health clinics, and implications for practice suggest that the use of shared decision aids is an effective method to support informed patient decision making and acceptance of LARC methods of contraception. |
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spelling | pubmed-49395312016-07-12 Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception George, Tracy P. DeCristofaro, Claire Dumas, Bonnie P. Murphy, Pamela F. Healthcare (Basel) Article Unintended pregnancies are an important public health issue. Long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs) are reliable, safe, highly effective methods for most women; however they are underutilized in the United States. Shared decision aids were added to usual care in five public health family planning clinics in the Southeastern United States, staffed by advance practice nurses and registered nurses. All five sites showed an increase in the use of LARCs during the time period that shared decision aids were used (results statistically significant to p < 0.001). It is important for women to make informed choices about contraception, and shared decision aids can be utilized to support this decision making. This resource has been adopted for statewide use in all public health clinics, and implications for practice suggest that the use of shared decision aids is an effective method to support informed patient decision making and acceptance of LARC methods of contraception. MDPI 2015-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4939531/ /pubmed/27417757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare3020205 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article George, Tracy P. DeCristofaro, Claire Dumas, Bonnie P. Murphy, Pamela F. Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title | Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title_full | Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title_fullStr | Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title_full_unstemmed | Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title_short | Shared Decision Aids: Increasing Patient Acceptance of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception |
title_sort | shared decision aids: increasing patient acceptance of long-acting reversible contraception |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27417757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare3020205 |
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