All of the resources included in our person-centred care resource centre have been reviewed by the Health Foundation. We believe them to be of the highest possible standard but we do not take responsibility for the accuracy of information from third parties.
Blog
In this blog, Diana Stilwell describes how patient stories can be used in patient education to help engage, inform, reassure, persuade, motivate, or model behavior. She argues that when used appropriately, stories can add real value for people facing hard health choices, without unduly biasing their decisions.
Academic / research papers
This research from America reports that fewer than 50% of severely or terminally ill patients have an advance directive in their medical record, and physicians are accurate only about 65% of the time when predicting patient preferences for intensive care.
Information for patients
This one-side sheet suggests a series of questions patients can ask their health professional to help them make a decision about their treatment and care.
Tools for clinical practice
This paper briefly describes the stages in using a patient decision aid in a consultation and advice on how to present statistics relating to risk.
Case studies
This case study describes how the team in Newcastle working on the Health Foundation’s MAGIC programme to implement shared decision making developed a new approach to supporting pregnant women to decide whether or not to have a screening test for Down’s syndrome.
Presentations
This presentation sets out what shared decision making is, why it is important and six steps involved in making shared decisions. It describes what a patient decision aid is and how they are developed by the IMDF and can be used in consultations.
Tools for clinical practice
This paper is intended to help health professionals to communicate effectively with their patients about the absolute and relative risks of their treatment options.
Information for patients
The NHS Shared Decision Making programme have developed a series of apps for android phones designed to help patients make decisions about their treatment and care. These are available to download for free from Apple Apps Store or Google play.
Information for patients
The Children's Hospital has developed an on-line electronic library to provide material that should help families make tough decisions about their children's health care.
Discussion papers
The article discusses findings from recent research that show that people consider risk information easier to understand and recall when it’s presented using a visual aid. Furthermore, it typically takes people less time to understand information when it’s presented visually than when it’s presented numerically.