Webinar | 1 p.m. EST | January 19, 2018
Master Shared Decision Making:
Shared decision making is an approach through which health professionals and patients make decisions together. Using the best evidence about the benefits and harms of each option, patients are supported to arrive at informed preferences.
Achieving shared decision making requires health professionals pay attention to situations where reasonable options exist and where patient preferences will be relevant.
The three-talk model describes three broad steps that form the core elements of shared decision making. Initially described in 2012, it has been widely cited and used as a basis for teaching shared decision making.
Patient decision aids can be used in shared decision making to trigger discussions between clinicians and patients. Decision aids are brief, and the content is deliberately designed to be quickly understood by patients, even if literacy levels are low.