Dunja Dreesens

75 (Continued) Table 3: Draft framework part 1: purposes of patient directed knowledge tools Patient information and educational material Decision tree Independent / pre- & post- encounter PDA Patient (version of) CPG Encounter PDA CONTENT ELEMENTS Information on disease, illness ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ +/- Eligibility information (describing the target group of the tool) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Treatment & care options identified (including wait and see) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Features of each option (e.g. practical issues, process, burden, cost, harms and benefits of these options) +/- ? ✓ +/- ✓ ✓ Possible benefits harms of these options +/- ? ✓ +/- ✓ Explicit decision(s) identified O ✓ ✓ +/- ✓ Personalizing features O ✓ +/- O +/- Values implicitly clarified +/- +/- N +/- ✓ Values explicitly clarified O O +/- ✓ +/- Explicit recommendations O ✓ O ✓ O DM process guidance O ✓ +/- O +/- QUALITY ELEMENTS Link to evidence explicit +/- +/- 1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Grading of evidence described, e.g. GRADE O O +/- +/- +/- Date stamp ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Certification process / trustworthy source O O P 2 O P 1 Stating developers’ conflicts of interests (or where to find these) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Available in clearing house, register O O ✓ +/- ✓ USE / TIMING OF TOOL Independent of consult +/- O +/- +/- O Pre-consult ✓ +/- ✓ ✓ +/- During consult O +/- +/- O ✓ Post-consult +/- O +/- +/- +/- Chapter 4