Volunteers needed: Help improve how patients and their doctors make decisions about treatments

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The below message is from the Optimising Shared decision-makIng for high RIsk Surgery (OSIRIS) programme. Their team are looking for volunteers, aged 50 or above, to take part in their research which focuses on improving how patients and doctors make decisions about treatments. 

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The Optimising Shared decision-makIng for high RIsk Surgery (OSIRIS) programme is funded by the National Institute for Health Research and investigates different aspects of the decision making process for major surgery. Improving our knowledge of how patients and doctors make decisions about major surgery is an important step in designing and trialling ways of improving this process for patients. We know that a lot of surgery has been cancelled due to COVID-19 and this is a cause of great concern for both patients and healthcare professionals. However, looking to the future, this research it is important to ensure that we optimise decision making process once normal elective surgical services are resumed.

We would like to invite you to take part in a research study run as part of OSIRIS Programme. We are looking for volunteers who are 50+ years old, live in the UK and are currently not contemplating undergoing surgery. This study involves an online questionnaire, where you will be presented with a hypothetical medical situation and asked to imagine how you would make decisions in that particular situation. The study will take approximately 25 min to complete.

More information is available about the study before you commit to participating.

If you are interested in taking part please follow the link below.