Developing a Digital Aid to Improve ICD Decisions

"The online, patient-facing decision-making aid will have the following features:~1. Clinical Data Input,~2. Introduction via Animated Video,~3. Common Questions,~4. Check-In Quiz,~5. Risk and Values Exploration based on patient specific information,~6. Wrap-Up,~7. Patient-Physician Worksheet,~These steps will be completed by the patient in advance of a provider visit where a shared-decision making process will decide whether an ICD is an appropriate sudden cardiac death-prevention strategy to pursue."

Some participants, in their course of medical care unrelated to the study intervention, will undergo implantation of an ICD.

The online, patient-facing decision-making aid will have the following features: 1) Clinical Data Input, 2) Introduction via Animated Video, 3) Common Questions, 4) Check-In Quiz, 5) Generic Risk and Values Exploration without patient specific information, 6) Wrap-Up, 7) Patient-Physician Worksheet, These steps will be completed by the patient in advance of a provider visit where a shared-decision making process will decide whether an ICD is an appropriate sudden cardiac death-prevention strategy to pursue.