Table 3. IPDAS criteria.

The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) include 12 quality criteria in the domains ‘content’, ‘development process’ and ‘effectiveness’ with the goal to improve the quality of DAs¹⁹.

The 12 dimensions of the IPDAS checklist for the development of decision aids
1) Using a Systematic Development Process
2) Providing Information about Options
3) Presenting Probabilities
4) Clarifying and Expressing Values
5) Using Personal Stories
6) Guiding/Coaching In Deliberation and Communication
7) Disclosing Conflicts Of Interest
8) Delivering Decision Aids on the Internet
9) Balancing the Presentation of Information and Options
10) Addressing Health Literacy
11) Basing Information On Comprehensive, Critically Appraised, And Up-To-Date Syntheses Of the Scientific Evidence
12) Establishing the Effectiveness