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Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, PhD
Professor Department of Community & Family Medicine
Co-Director, Institute for Informed Patient Choice,
The Dartmouth Insititute (formerly CECS)
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas's research focuses on measuring patients' and physicians' attitudes about:
- The health states that individuals currently experience, that they expect to enter, and that they actually experience in the future;
- Different decision making roles in screening, preventive, diagnostic, treatment, clinical trial entry, and end-of-life situations;
- The different periods of time involved in waiting for, undergoing, and recovering from treatment, as well as long-term survival time;
- Different optional health care policies, programs, or treatment protocols, given their inherent risks, benefits, and costs; and
- Different "decision support" interventions designed to foster informed, preference-based patient choice, particularly in close-call
situations that generate considerable decisional distress in patients, their families, and their health care providers.
The research methods course that she teaches at CECS ("Studying Patients' Decisions") is built on this research background.
Dr. Llewellyn-Thomas has served as President of the Society for Medical Decision Making, and publishes extensively in the methodological literature about health care decision making.
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