Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a collaborative, patient-directed decision making process that helps Veterans, together with their family caregivers and health care team, set goals and priorities, and make choices that meet patient needs while honoring patient values and preferences. Shared Decision Making is an effective approach for making difficult decisions such as planning for long term care.
AHRQ’s SHARE Approach is a five-step process for shared decision-making. Fact sheets, learning modules, videos, success stories, webinars and marketing materials are available.
National leaders in patient advocacy, also members of the MedStar Health Patient and Family Advisory Council for Quality and Safety (PFACQS), provide tips on what it takes to start a PFAC that focuses on Quality and Safety
Guidelines for which imaging tests providers should, or should not, order for different patient symptoms, medical histories, and health status. The recommendations are reviewed every year using an expert panel.
This site contains information for patients to prepare for radiation exams, therapies or procedures. There are over 230 procedure, exam and disease descriptions available.
The National Quality Forum is issuing a call to action for all individuals and organizations that provide, receive, pay for, and make policies for healthcare to embreace and integrate shared decision making into clinical practice as a standard of person-centered care.
This document guides the creation of a six-step action plan for collaboration with patients and families in primary care practices or Practice Transformation Networks (PTN).
This guide answers questions about the role of a patient and family advisor, helps patients decide if they want to become one and prepares them to participate effectively. A short video explains how to use the guide.
