Services

Our services include preparing research funding applications, design and production of decision support interventions, evaluating new interventions for effectiveness, and disseminating interventions for use at MD Anderson and our partner institutions. Patient decision aids produced by the Decision Science Core Facility meet new certification requirements from the National Quality Forum, and the content, development process, evaluation, and reporting follow standards from the International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration. A further description of our services follows:

• Research grant consultation and preparation
• Access to development and evaluation tools (measures library)
• Registry of patients and caregivers willing to participate in decision support development studies
• Access to library of research protocols for IRB submission
• Design and production of decision support interventions
• Decision aid design according to international standards
• Project management
• Study and protocol management
• Evaluation of decision support interventions (cognitive testing, user testing, field and pilot testing)
• Database management and analysis
• Dissemination and implementation planning and evaluation