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Decision support interventions for patients are also often known as 'decision aids' or 'shared decision making' programmes. Annette O’Connor’s has defined a decision aid as: ‘interventions designed to help people make specific and deliberative choices among options by providing information about the options and outcomes that are relevant to a person's health status’ Reference. This definition has provided an important basis for the synthesis of trial evidence 14. However, as the range and type of decision support interventions proliferates, further elaboration seems timely. The term ‘decision support intervention’ acts as a generic term. This term recognises that, irrespective of the nature of the artifact or delivery system, any method that attempts to support individuals when they are facing decisions, either in dialogue with an agent, such as a health care professional, or independently of such dialogues, is a decision support intervention. Using a generic term such as ‘decision support intervention’ recognises the existence of different types of support methods, e.g. a service, a system or artifacts such as leaflets, books, videos, DVDs, websites or other interactive media, but also leads us to ask how these fit into different settings, in homes or in professional workflows, clinics and organisations. In short, we should view these developments as being part of the science of ‘complex interventions’ Reference.