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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.
Presentations
Teams working on the Health Foundation's MAGIC programme designed workshops to help health professionals develop the skills and techniques for effective shared decision making. Materials to support the programme include overheads, handouts and pre and post-training self assessment.
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.
Discussion papers
This blog describes how a doctor helped a family to move from asking the doctor to make a decision, to thinking through what their mother's wishes might be for her end of life care, and how this has influenced the doctor's subsequent practice.
Academic / research papers
This paper reports on the findings of two rounds of semi-structured interviews with health professionals taking part in the Health Foundation's MAGIC programme to put shared decision making into practice. It sets out the work required to implement shared decision making and to inform future efforts.
Academic / research papers
The article aims to translate existing conceptual descriptions of shared decison making int a three-step model that is practical, easy to remember, and can act as a guide to skills development.
Tools for clinical practice
This document provides a brief reminder of key approaches and phrases that clinicians can use to support shared decision making.
Tools for managers
Created by the Newcastle and Cardiff teams as part of the Health Foundation’s MAGIC programme, this document sets out the key members of a VBAC team who need to be involved in introducing shared decision making. It describes the key features of their role within the process and provides a template for individuals to commit to the activities involved.
Video
This 2 minute animation provides a brief introduction to option grids and how they can be used in a consultation and by patients following their consultation, to help them make decisions about their treatment.
Tools for clinical practice
This resource pack was developed by the Shared Decision Making Team based at AQuA together with 28 teams from hospital, community and primary care working in the clinical areas of: maternity, musculoskeletal and renal.