SHARE Approach Curriculum Tools
These tools are to be used in conjunction with the SHARE Approach Workshop Curriculum. Below are the PDFs for designed, printable tools.
SHARE APPROACH RESOURCES
SHARE Approach Video—Shared Decisionmaking Demonstration
This video shows an example of a clinical encounter without shared decisionmaking, and a similar clinical encounter using the SHARE Approach to shared decisionmaking.
Shared Decisionmaking Resources
Tool 1: Essential Steps of Shared Decisionmaking: Quick Reference Guide (PDF, 3.54 MB)
This guide describes the five steps of the SHARE Approach and encompasses the nine key elements of shared decisionmaking described by Makoul and Clayman (2006). It identifies points at which patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) resources (e.g., patient decision aids, videos, etc.) can be introduced to facilitate shared decisionmaking and to identify patients’ preferences.
Tool 2: Essential Steps of Shared Decisionmaking: Expanded Reference Guide with Sample Conversation Starters (PDF, 2.29 MB)
This tool is intended to provide useful tips and sample dialogue that can be used during the patient-clinician encounter to:
- Start a shared decisionmaking dialogue with patients.
- Introduce a decision aid.
- Clarify patient preferences.
Communication Tools for Shared Decisionmaking
Tool 3: Overcoming Communication Barriers With Your Patients: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers (PDF, 3.61 MB)
This is a quick reference handout that offers tips for overcoming communication challenges between patients and clinicians to facilitate shared decisionmaking. This sheet includes interactive checklists on ways to effectively work with qualified medical interpreters before and during office visits.
Tool 4: Health Literacy and Shared Decisionmaking: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers (PDF, 2.64 MB)
This health literacy 101 fact sheet offers an overview of health literacy challenges in the United States, addresses universal health literacy precautions, and provides practical tips health care providers can apply when presenting decision aids to people with limited health literacy/limited English proficiency.
Tool 5: Communicating Numbers to Your Patients: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers (PDF, 2.29 MB)
This quick reference handout offers tips for workshop participants on how to convey risk information and numbers in understandable terms. The handout highlights practical tips to make numbers more meaningful for patients.
Tool 6: Using the Teach-Back Technique: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers (PDF, 2.58 MB)
This tool highlights effective teach-back techniques and describes the role of teach-back when sharing decision aids. The handout includes interactive checklists on optimal teach-back approaches to guide providers on when to use the technique, what to say, and how to say it.
Tool 7: Taking Steps Toward Cultural Competence: A Fact Sheet (PDF, 2 MB)
This tool is designed to help workshop participants quickly assess whether they and/or their organization are taking steps toward delivering care and services that are culturally respectful and linguistically responsive.
Implementation Resources for Shared Decisionmaking
Tool 8: Putting Shared Decisionmaking Into Practice: A User’s Guide for Clinical Teams (PDF, 3.66 MB)
This guide is designed to support ongoing efforts among health care providers to use current and reliable evidence in everyday clinical decisionmaking. In particular, this guide provides strategies to augment shared decisionmaking between clinicians and patients with PCOR. It also highlights and encourages the application of PCOR tools and resources made available by AHRQ.
Tool 9: Achieving Patient-Centered Care with Shared Decisionmaking: A Brief for Administrators and Practice Leaders (PDF, 2.11 MB)
This brief is designed to highlight the benefits of using PCOR and shared decisionmaking and various incentives for adopting these processes in the clinical practice setting. The guide discusses evidence about how using decision tools and SDM can (1) improve the quality of patient care; (2) help organizations meet new legislative goals for providing patient-centered care; and (3) help organizations with achieving recognition as a patient-centered medical home or certification requirements for becoming an Accountable Care Organization.
Additional SHARE Approach Resources
The SHARE Approach At-A-Glance Poster (PDF, 559 KB)
The clinician poster outlines the key steps of the SHARE Approach shared decisionmaking process. |
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Know Your Options Poster (PDF, 317 KB)
The "Know Your Options" poster highlights three must-ask questions for patients. This is intended to be placed in a patient-facing area such as the waiting room or exam room. |
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SHARE Approach screensaver [ ZIP- 3.5 MB] (Compressed executable file) |
Trainer’s Promotional/Marketing Kit (Available on request. Send inquiry to SHARE@ahrq.hhs.gov)
This kit offers a prepackaged set of promotional materials to assist workshop trainees with marketing their own workshops. This kit includes:
- A customizable flyer for the trainees to take back to their organizations for recruitment.
- A fact sheet about the workshop curriculum.
- News release for company newsletter or local news resources to facilitate recruitment for upcoming local workshops.
- Sample language for email blasts, Tweets, and Web site postings to facilitate recruitment.
- Frequently asked questions related to the workshop.