Research Interests
- Development and evaluation of decision aids
- Development and testing of decision support/evaluation methods
- Educating health practitioners/clinicians and consumers in shared
decision making
- Decision conflict models
Selected Publications
- O’Connor, A. Validation of a decisional conflict scale. Medical Decision Making.15(1):25-30, 1995. Scale which has become a strandard for evaluation.
- O'Connor, A., & O'Brien-Pallas, L.L. "Decisional Conflict", in G.K. McFarland and E.A. McFarlane (eds), Nursing Diagnosis and Intervention (Toronto: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1989) pp. 573-588. Conceptual framework of decision support as a clinical skill.
- O’Connor A, Tugwell P, Wells G, Elmslie T, Jolly E, Hollingworth G, McPherson R, Bunn H, Graham I, Drake E. A decision aid for women considering hormone therapy after menopause: Decision support framework and evaluation. Patient Education and Counselling. 33(3):267-279, March 1998. Widely used conceptual framework for managing patients’ decisional conflict.
- O’Connor A, Tugwell P, Wells G, Elmslie T, Jolly E, Hollingworth G, McPherson R, Drake E, Hopman W, MacKenzie T. Randomized trial of a portable, self-administered decision aid for post-menopausal women considering long-term preventive hormone therapy. Medical Decision Making. 18(3):295-303, 1998. Randomized trial of patient decision aids using Ottawa approach.
- Man-Son-Hing M, Laupacis A, O’Connor A, Biggs J, Drake E, Yetisir E, Hart R & SPAF Investigators. A Patient Decision Aid Regarding Antithrombotic Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation. A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA 282(8):737-743, 1999.Randomized trial of patient decision aids using Ottawa approach.
- O’Connor AM, Fiset V, DeGrasse C, Graham I, Evans W, Stacey D, Laupacis A, Tugwell P. Decision aids for patients considering options affecting cancer outcomes: Evidence of efficacy and policy implications. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monographs 25:67-80, 1999. Methods in developing and evaluating patient decision aids.
- O’Connor, A., Llewellyn-Thomas, H., Sawka, C., Pinfold, S., To, T., Harrison, D. Physicians’ opinions about decision aids for patients considering systemic adjuvant therapy for axillary-node negative breast cancer. Patient Education and Counseling. 30:143-153, 1997.First large scale survey of physician’s attitudes toward decision aids.
- O’Connor A, Rostom A, Fiset V, Tetroe J, Entwistle V, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Holmes-Rovner M, Barry M, Jones J. Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: A Cochrane systematic review. British Medical Journal 319(7212):731-734, 1999. First systematic review of patient decision aids.
- O’Connor AM, Drake ER, Wells GA, Tugwell P, Laupacis A, Elmslie T. A survey of the decision-making needs of Canadians faced with complex health decisions. Health Expectations, 6(2):97-109, 2003. First national survey of a population’s decision needs for complex health care decisions.
- Stacey D, O’Connor A, Graham I, Pomey MP. Randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of an intervention to implement evidence-based patient decision support in a nursing call centre. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2006; 12:410-415. First trial evaluating the process of decision support for values-sensitive decisions provided by call center nurses.
- Elwyn G, O'Connor A, Stacey D, Volk R, Edwards A, Coulter A, Thomson R, Barratt A, Barry M, Bernstein S, Butow P, Clarke A, Entwistle V, Feldman-Stewart D, Holmes-Rovner M, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Moumjid N, Mulley A, Ruland C, Sepucha K, Sykes A, Whelan T, The International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS)Collaboration. Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process. British Medical Journal. 2006 Aug 26;333(7565):417. First international standards for developing/evaluating patient decision aids.
- O’Connor A, Wennberg J, Légaré F, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Moulton B, Sepucha K, Sodano A, Staples King J. Towards the Tipping Point: Accelerating the diffusion of decision aids that help patients to weigh benefits versus risks. Health Affairs 2007; 26(3). Policy paper on implementing patient decision aids.
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