Applying Methods of User-Centered Design to Achieve Patient-Centered Care [Methods Study], 2013-2019

Patient decision aids help people choose between two or more healthcare options based on what is most important to them. Involving users, such as patients and clinicians, in developing decision aids may make them more useful.User-centered design is a way to get users involved in creating products. Learning from projects that apply user-centered design may suggest ways to involve users more in developing patient decision aids. In this study, the research team reviewed studies about developing decision aids and studies about user-centered design.