Â鶹´«Ã½ the SHARE Approach Workshop
The SHARE Approach outlines five steps health care professionals can take to ensure they are effectively implementing shared decisionmaking with patients during clinical encounters. The steps were designed to incorporate the essential elements that have been defined for shared decisionmaking.
Below is information that can help you assess whether you or your organization are ready to employ this training program in your own institution.
Is Your Organization Ready for the SHARE Approach?
Answering the following questions will help you determine if you or your organization are ready to use AHRQ's SHARE Approach curriculum.
If you find that you have more "yes" responses than "no" responses to the following questions, the SHARE Approach curriculum is probably right for your organization. If you find that you have mostly "no" responses—particularly if your senior leadership is not yet onboard and willing to commit time and resources to training and implementation efforts—it may be best to spend some time first working on these readiness issues before attempting to use the curriculum in your setting.
Associated with each of the questions below you will find resources and materials that you can use to educate yourself and the decisionmakers in your organization/practice about PCOR and shared decisionmaking.
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1. Do you personally have the time and skills to train health professionals, either in your own institution or those from other health professional or provider organizations? YES/NO |
2. Will your institution allow time for personnel to participate in training? YES/NO If your institution is considering the adoption of the SHARE Approach within your practice, your institution or practice will need to ensure that other members of your institution are trained on the SHARE Approach curriculum content. Be sure that your senior leadership will support this training and that your colleagues are interested in participating. |
3. Will your institution provide the required staff time and resources to implement the SHARE Approach? YES/NO The best way to implement shared decisionmaking in practice is to establish an implementation team that can adapt the SHARE Approach for your organization or practice. Several staff members from different disciplines should participate on the implementation team. AHRQ has also developed "Putting Shared Decisionmaking Into Practice: A User's Guide for Clinical Teams" (PDF File, 3.66 MB). This user's guide, which is part of the SHARE Approach training, is designed to support ongoing efforts among health care providers to use current and reliable evidence in everyday clinical decisionmaking. |
4. Is there leadership support for this effort? YES/NO Change happens most easily if there is visible support from senior leadership. Are your organization or practice's senior leaders willing to support quality improvement initiatives, such as the SHARE Approach? Are they willing to commit staff time and other resources that will be needed to achieve a positive change? AHRQ has developed "Achieving Patient-Centered Outcomes with Shared Decisionmaking: A Brief for Administrators and Practice Leaders" ( PDF, 2.11 MB) that you can share with practice administrators or senior leaders. This brief is designed to quickly highlight 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 shared decisionmaking can—
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5. Will your institution be able to reinforce and reward positive steps toward the adoption of PCOR and shared decisionmaking? YES / NO A change in clinical practice doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, and participants using the new practice need training, coaching, and positive reinforcement for their efforts. Your organization or practice needs to make a long-term commitment to the implementation of PCOR in shared decisionmaking to ensure its success. Â鶹´«Ã½ provides additional resources to support ongoing training and learning about shared decisionmaking and patient-centered outcome research.
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What Will You Learn From the SHARE Approach Curriculum?
Some of the things you can expect to learn in AHRQ's SHARE Approach curriculum are highlighted below.
The benefits of using PCOR products (e.g., patient decision aids and educational resources) and shared decisionmaking Using PCOR materials in shared decisionmaking can help your organization or practice engage patients in a way that can improve their experience of care, improve adherence and treatment outcomes, lower costs, and make the care you deliver more patient-centered. It can also help your organization or practice meet national certification standards to become an Accountable Care Organization or recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home. |
How to use patient decision aids and educational resources to support shared decisionmaking This training focuses on the use of free patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) materials from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). If you are not using PCOR materials (e.g., decision aids) in shared decisionmaking, this curriculum will introduce you to a new and innovative approach to help your organization or practice achieve the Triple Aim. If you are using PCOR materials from other sources, this workshop will be a great introduction to new, evidence-based materials to help patients make decisions about their treatment options. It will also reinforce your approaches to sharing these resources with patients through a process of shared decisionmaking. If your organization or practice already uses AHRQ's materials in shared decisionmaking with your patients, you may find the information presented in the curriculum reinforces what you are already doing. |
Why organizational change is needed to implement effective shared decisionmaking Implementing the SHARE Approach is a team effort that involves everyone in the organization, from senior leadership to front desk staff. Helping team members understand how using shared decisionmaking can support the organization or practice's mission and how each individual plays a role, builds camaraderie, trust, and a motivation to change current practice. If your organization is moving toward an interdisciplinary or team-based approach to providing patient-centered care, the SHARE Approach will facilitate these efforts. |