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Lyndal Trevena is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research primarily within the fields of Health Professions and Medicine. Their work notably spans several subfields, including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Oncology.

Their research concentrates on key topics such as Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, Health Policy Implementation Science, Migration, Health and Trauma, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Lyndal Trevena has contributed to several publications, including recent papers of note:

  • Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions, 2024, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Health Literacy and Shared Decision-making: Exploring the Relationship to Enable Meaningful Patient Engagement in Healthcare, 2020, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Current Best Practice for Presenting Probabilities in Patient Decision Aids: Fundamental Principles, 2021, Medical Decision Making
  • Current Challenges When Using Numbers in Patient Decision Aids: Advanced Concepts, 2021, Medical Decision Making
  • Parent-level barriers to uptake of childhood vaccination: a global overview of systematic reviews, 2021, BMJ Global Health

Their frequent coauthors include Carissa Bonner, Danielle Marie Muscat, Amelia K. Smit, Anne Ε. Cust, and Pinika Patel, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts.

Lyndal Trevena's work is regularly published in several academic venues, notably Medical Decision Making, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Implementation Science Communications, Genetics in Medicine, and JMIR Cardio.

Best Publications

  • Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions

    Dawn Stacey;Dawn Stacey;Krystina Lewis;Michael J Barry

  • Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.

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  • Shared decision making: really putting patients at the centre of healthcare

    A M Stiggelbout;T Van der Weijden;M P T De Wit;D Frosch

  • A three-talk model for shared decision making: multistage consultation process

    Glyn Elwyn;Marie Anne Durand;Julia Song;Johanna Aarts

  • Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers

    Lyndal J. Trevena;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Adrian Edwards;Wolfgang Gaissmaier

  • Exploring patient involvement in healthcare decision making across different education and functional health literacy groups.

    Sian K. Smith;Ann Dixon;Lyndal Trevena;Donald Nutbeam

  • Shared decision making: What do clinicians need to know and why should they bother?

    Tammy C Hoffmann;Tammy C Hoffmann;Magenta B Simmons;Kevin McNamara

  • A systematic review on communicating with patients about evidence

    Lyndal J Trevena;Alexandra Barratt;Phyllis Butow;Patrina Caldwell

  • Evidence for underuse of effective medical services around the world

    Paul Glasziou;Sharon Straus;Shannon Brownlee;Lyndal J. Trevena

  • A decision aid to support informed choices about bowel cancer screening among adults with low education: randomised controlled trial

    Sian K. Smith;Lyndal Trevena;Judy M. Simpson;Alexandra Barratt

  • Three questions that patients can ask to improve the quality of information physicians give about treatment options: a cross-over trial

    Heather L. Shepherd;Heather L. Shepherd;Alexandra Barratt;Lyndal J. Trevena;Kevin McGeechan

  • Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.

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  • The role of primary care in early detection and follow-up of cancer

    Jon D Emery;Katie Shaw;Briony Williams;Danielle Mazza

  • Health Literacy and Shared Decision-making: Exploring the Relationship to Enable Meaningful Patient Engagement in Healthcare

    Danielle M Muscat;Heather L Shepherd;Don Nutbeam;Lyndal Trevena

  • Systematic review of instruments for measuring nurses' knowledge, skills and attitudes for evidence-based practice

    Kat Leung;Lyndal Trevena;Donna Waters

  • A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Methods for Smartphone Health Apps

    Nasser F. BinDhim;Alexandra Hawkey;Lyndal Trevena

  • Current Best Practice for Presenting Probabilities in Patient Decision Aids: Fundamental Principles

    Carissa Bonner;Lyndal J. Trevena;Wolfgang Gaissmaier;Paul K. J. Han

  • Depression screening via a smartphone app: cross-country user characteristics and feasibility.

    Nasser F. BinDhim;Ahmed M. Shaman;Lyndal J. Trevena;Mada H. Basyouni

  • Are Current Psychometric Tools suitable for Measuring Outcomes of Diabetes Education

    C Eigenmann;R Colagiuri;Timothy Skinner;L Trevena

  • Use of decision aids to support informed choices about screening.

    Alexandra Barratt;Lyndal Trevena;Heather M Davey;Kirsten McCaffery

  • Effects of a web based decision aid on parental attitudes to MMR vaccination: a before and after study.

    Cate Wallace;Julie Leask;Lyndal J Trevena

  • Smartphone Smoking Cessation Application (SSC App) trial: a multicountry double-blind automated randomised controlled trial of a smoking cessation decision-aid ‘app’

    Nasser F BinDhim;Kevin McGeechan;Lyndal Trevena

  • Can consumers learn to ask three questions to improve shared decision making? A feasibility study of the ASK (AskShareKnow) Patient-Clinician Communication Model(®) intervention in a primary health-care setting.

    Heather L Shepherd;Alexandra Barratt;Anna Jones;Deborah Bateson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten McCaffery
Kirsten McCaffery University of Sydney
Don Nutbeam
Don Nutbeam University of Sydney
Julie Leask
Julie Leask University of Sydney
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Bettina Meiser
Bettina Meiser University of New South Wales
Stacy M Carter
Stacy M Carter University of Wollongong
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Ellen Peters
Ellen Peters University of Oregon
Paul K. J. Han
Paul K. J. Han Maine Medical Center
Helen Christensen
Helen Christensen University of New South Wales

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