This webinar covers factors facing conversations about overuse with patients and caregivers, and provides specific tools and strategies for improving the outcome of those conversations.
The toolkit contains educational materials and training templates for effectively engaging patient advisors in research projects. Materials can be tailored for each research project.
This document outlines how patient and family engagement activities can improve health outcomes and achieve TCPI program-specific metrics, which align with quality payment program standards. Links to additional resources for a deeper dive are also provided.
The toolkit is designed to help rural communities identify and implement a care coordination program. It also provides links to resources and best practices.
Five modules and links to a wide-range of resources for moving patients forward on the patient activation continuum. The tools are listed by category, and include Activation, Communication, Decision Aids, Self-Management and Shared-Decision Making.
Fundamentally, shared decision making is about giving patients the opportunity to be active participants in their health care. When well-informed patients and caregivers team up with health professionals who are trained in effective communication, patients are more likely to receive care that meets their needs and see improved health outcomes. Advocates have an important role to play in ensuring that shared decision-making programs are consumer-friendly.
The Mayo Clinic Shared Decision Making National Resource Center provides decision aids and decision-making techniques. Tools are available for specific conditions and in English and Spanish.
