The Personal Patient Profile Decision Support for Patients With Bladder Cancer

The decisional aid will be developed to enhance patients' communication about cystectomy and urinary diversions with the clinicians, patients' decisions and preparation for self-care. Program users will be able to choose from a menu to view and print: a) summaries of their responses to inquiry questionnaire about information needed, b) selected statistics about specific side effects and self-care, and c) streamed video vignettes with patient actors of mixed cancer stages, age, sex, and race talking with a clinician about their treatment outcomes and self-care. An automatically printed 2-page output to facilitate discussion will list: 1) decision role preference; 2) the 4 highest ranked information preference sheets; and 3) a summary of personal factors plus suggested discussion topics to address with the clinician. The 2-pages will be provided to the treating physician by the research coordinator before the patient's next consultation appointment.