When Shared Decision Making Fails: Decisional Regret in Kidney Disease.
When Shared Decision Making Fails: Decisional Regret in Kidney Disease.
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当共同决策失败时:肾脏疾病中的决策遗憾。
DOI:
10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100789
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发表时间:
2024
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Nair,Devika
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作者:
Nair,Devika
Shared decision making in health care occurs when clinicians provide patients with information on the best available treatment evidence; support patients in their deliberation of treatment options; and partner with patients to make an informed choice that aligns with their goals and values. 1 According to decision theory, decisional regret occurs when an individual believes that a better outcome would have been achieved had an alternate decision been made. 2 Regret increases when potentially useful information about the best course of action arrives after the fact, or perhaps never at all. In essence, decisional regret is what patients may experience when shared decision making fails.The importance of shared decision making has most frequently been described in nephrology in the context of beginning dialysis. More recently, decisional regret related to dialysis has emerged as a potential consequence of failed shared decision making and a focus of scholarly inquiry on its own. 3-5 In this issue of Kidney Medicine, Pawar et al (Pawar A, Thorsteindotir B, Whitman S, et al. Decisional regret surrounding dialysis initiation: a comparative analysis. Kidney Med. 2023, in press) apply a unique study design to further expand on our knowledge of decisional regret in dialysis. Using a sequential, explanatory mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative) design, Pawar et al deeply explore causes of decisional regret among participants receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis at one academic medical center. In the study’s initial, quantitative phase, 78 participants were surveyed using a validated measure of decisional regret. This step informed the purposive sampling that occurred during the study’s subsequent qualitative phase, during which 21 participants, selected from those who reported the highest and lowest levels of decisional regret, were interviewed. To synthesize and report themes and subthemes from participant interviews, the authors applied grounded theory, a qualitative data analysis method by which theoretical insights are inductively derived from the data. 6 Participants reporting lower decisional regret generally reported healthier coping strategies, including positive reframing, acceptance, goal setting, and cultivating healthy distractions. Most importantly, these were individuals for whom dialysis allowed the continued presence of pleasurable life activities and supportive relationships. Those participants who reported higher decisional regret strongly emphasized feeling underprepared because of a lack of knowledge related to