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Cultural and Technological Changes on Patient Populations             I have had different experiences when it comes to patient participation in treatment or healthcare decisions. In some instances, I have met patients who take part actively in their own medical choices. They will come to the clinic with a lot of information and will be aware of the kind of a disease they could be suffering from and the treatment steps involved. Such involvement is advantageous because it results into planning treatment collectively and allowing for decision making. Nonetheless, there were also times where patients displayed low levels of engagement when decisions regarding their health were being made (Hoffman et al., 2014). Such patients usually have poor knowledge or awareness about their state and depend much on what the medical personnel tells them to do. In these situations, the person could feel overwhelmed or unsure as they make incorrect decisions because they are poorly informed.             A situation that stands out for me is a patient who was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the beginning, the patient hesitated to participate in the decision-making process about her treatment and said she would simply obey whatever advice healthcare professional gave her (Hoffman et al., 2014). However, after learning more about her condition and available treatments, she began to become active in this process of deciding on what to do. In this case, treatment decisions were influenced by the values and choices of the patient. The patient expressed a strong willingness to take a treatment that would not interfere with her quality of life and work. That preference was taken into account while developing the plan for treating her; other forms of treatment that matched what she wished were looked at as well             In this case, the use of a patient decision aid would have been useful in helping the patient make a decision. By providing information on various treatment options and their possible drawbacks and advantages, a decision aid might have helped the patient (Kon et al., 2016). This could have enabled the patient to choose better by giving them more knowledge and thus being able to make an informed choice aligned with their values and preferences.             In general, patient decision aids help make patient’s decisions effective by providing them with the information needed to make informed decisions (Kon et al., 2016). They will enable the patients understand possible dangers and gains of treatment options that are different as well as influence of social determinants of health on their choice. Professionals in the healthcare industry will be able to use decision aids to promote shared decision making and respect for values and preferences of a patient. Certainly, I would think about employing Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Decision Aids Inventory in my professional practice.                                                                                       References Hoffman, T.C., Montari, V.M., & Del Mar, C. (2014). The Connection between evidence-based medicine and shared decision making. Journal of the American Medical Association,           312(13). 1295-1296. Kon, A.A., Davidson, J.E., Morrison. W., Danis, M., & White. D.B.(2016). Shared decision making in intensive care units: An American College of Critical Care Medicine and      American Thoracic Society Policy Statement. Critical Care Medicine, 44(1), 188-201.
   
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