Patient decision aids (PDAs) provide a useful tool to involve patients in the decision-making process, ultimately promoting shared patient–physician decision-making.

The use of a PDA in patients with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who are unable to achieve their therapeutic goals with the current therapeutic strategy, reduces patients’ decisional conflict and should facilitate patient–physician communication by improving their knowledge of the disease and helping them clarify their values related to treatment.

Health professionals’ adoption of a PDA as part of RA patients’ care may facilitate shared decision making and help tailor treatment to patients’ needs.