The National Quality Foundation is undertaking new work to set national standards for these tools, including determining clinical areas where more of these resources are needed, and developing a process for certifying high-quality decision aids for patients.
Involving Patients May Decrease Antibiotic Prescriptions
According to a new review of past research, when patients and doctors discuss antibiotic prescribing together, fewer drugs are given out.
Patient Decision Aids Can Help with Shared Decision-Making in Type 2 Diabetes
A Monthly Prescribing Reference article outlines a recent study that examined the role of patient decision aids (PDAs) in facilitating Type 2 diabetes management and care. PDAs are evidence-based, publicly available tools designed to help people make informed decisions about their treatment options.
Story: Inviting Patients To Help Design Their Own Medical Treatment
A recent Kaiser Health News story profiles shared decision-making’s increased use in health care and UC San Francisco’s approach, in particular, that has been a model for other programs around the nation.
On-Demand Webinar Explores Implementing Shared Decision-Making
Richard Wexler, MD, chief integration officer for Healthwise, demonstrates why shared decision-making is an important component of high-quality care. Joyce Kramer, RN, Manager of Shared Decision-Making at Allina Health, and MSDMC participant, describes the lessons her health system learned from working with management and clinicians to implement SDM using decision aids.
Story: Why Shared Decision-Making May Not be that Simple
A Newsworks story uses one patient’s experience with a cancer diagnosis to show what experts are learning: That individual patients have different comfort levels when it comes to weighing all the variables and detail of a complicated medical choice.
Glyn Elwyn Explores “True” Shared Decision-Making With Reinertsen Audience
In a talk sprinkled with references to a favorite Minnesota icon, Garrison Keillor, Prof. Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, explored the nature of “true” shared decision-making with a packed audience of Minnesota health care providers, plan administrators and others at the annual James L. Reinertsen Lecture.
Story: For Better Treatment, Doctors and Patients Share the Decisions
An NPR Health News story reports on how health care teams at Massachusetts General are working on ways to involve their patients in shared decision-making. The initiative gives patients online, written and visual information to help them.
Study Finds Shared Decision Making During Radiation Therapy Improves Patient Satisfaction
Often, radiation oncology is seen as a treatment avenue that is ultimately left to the physician to dictate. But there are tailored options, decisions, and discussions that can apply to individual patients, even if they all have similar diagnoses.
Study: Shared Decision-Making Associated with Better Adherence to Medications
“It is striking how strongly providers’ relationships with their patients, particularly the use of shared decision-making, influenced whether patients became ongoing users of the medications prescribed for them.”