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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2014 Apr 8;34(5):560–566. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14528381

Table 2. Reporting on performance of new and established measures of decision quality and decision process in studies of PtDAs.

New Measures
(n=61)
Prior published measures
(n=117)
All Measures
(n=178)
DCS*
(n=47)
Non DCS Prior published
(n=70)
Item Generation 20% 68% 66% 51%
Cognitive testing 0 0 0 0
Pilot studies 11% 0 1% 5%
Reliability 15% 30% 21% 21%
Validity 15% 17% 17% 16%
Responsiveness 0% 19% 0% 5%
Accuracy/Precision 3% 15% 0% 5%
Interpretability 0% 13% 1% 4%
Acceptability 2% 4% 0% 2%
Feasibility of administration 0 0 0 0

PtDAs=patient decision aids; DCS=Decisional Conflict Scale

*

Includes all versions of the DCS, as well as studies that only included some of the DCS subscales.

p<0.05 comparing frequency of reporting on new and prior published measures;

p<0.01 comparing frequency of reporting on new and prior published measures.