As of 2012, the updated theoretical rationale and emerging evidence suggest potential benefits to delivering patient decision aids on the Internet.
Building on the updated definition, theoretical rationale, and empirical evidence, the following discussion highlights some emerging areas for research that can contribute towards developing measures and standards of quality for the Internet-delivery of PtDAs.
The group built on other published guidelines, updated the evidence, and presented a rationale for the recommendations to CCCDTD4 in two papers.
This updated publication describes the details and rationales of the study protocol amendments and outcome assessments which were made and implemented in June 2011.
It presents the meaning and rationale for each new and updated checklist item providing examples of good reporting and, where possible, references to relevant empirical studies.
Building on the original background chapter, this paper provides an updated definition for this dimension, outlines a theoretical rationale, describes current evidence, and discusses emerging research areas.
In the case of the definitions and theory group, data summary and synthesis yielded an updated definition for "balance", and an overarching theoretical rationale for evaluating PtDAs according to this quality dimension (see below).
After final refinement of the rationale for each recommendation and the complete manuscript, the updated document was approved by the endorsing organisations between October 2009 and January 2010.
Study details will be continuously updated on PROSPERO, and any amendments made will be fully published there with the date of amendment and full rationale.
The G-BA's decision rationale (Tragende Gründe) provides further information on the requested data and the time frame for submission of the updated dossier containing the additional data [8].
