Pittsburgh Surgical Outcomes Research Center
Transforming the conduct of clinical research

Shared Decision Making for Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Severe Obesity

This project team proposes to incorporate the new PCORI comparative effectiveness research evidence on bariatric surgery from the PCORnet Bariatric Study into its decision aid and the Shared Decision Making approach, which has a demonstrated impact on patient knowledge, decisional conflict, satisfaction, and care decisions, and then implement and rigorously evaluate the updated strategy at two large healthcare systems: Kaiser Permanente Washington and UPMC in Pennsylvania.

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