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This resource includes Menu of Measures directory and Measuring Success support guide.
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“Essential Reading” is a reading list on shared decision making that provides a rapid introduction to the subject and access to knowledge to develop your thinking. The 22 articles are all systematic reviews which have been identified as key. For each article there is a key statement or conclusion to help you assess the article’s value to your needs and a link to the full text where possible or an abstract.
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The teams in Cardiff and Newcastle working on the Health Foundation’s MAGIC programme developed a series of tools to help them understand the progress they had made in implementing shared decision making, the challenges and some of the approaches to overcoming these.
This resource contains five tools designed to help individuals and teams measure their progress and understand the challenges and successes.
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This article describes how Health Dialog Services Corporation (a part of BUPA) developed a telephone-based care management programme that enables patients to participate in their treatment decisions with the support of telephone–based health coaches who help at-risk individuals learn to participate in decisions with their doctors, improve self-management skills, and more effectively navigate the health system.
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This brief survey is designed to get the health professionals’ views on how much they have involved their patient in decisions about their care and treatment.
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This report sets out some key potential benefits of shared decision making and to what extent they are being realised without shared decision making, providing a framework and baseline against which the impact of implementing shared decision making can be measured.
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This paper defines ‘decision quality’ as the extent to which treatments reflect the considered preferences of well-informed patients and are implemented. It sets out the four main elements involved in the decision-making process to ensure a high quality decision, and how these can be measured. It includes a fully-worked example of how to measure the quality of decision making for knee osteoarthritis, which can provide a template for developing materials for other conditions.
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These web pages set out a series of measures - such as acceptability and values - and how these can be applied in order to evaluate the quality of a Patient Decision Aid.
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The Health Foundation’s MAGIC programme is working with a consortium of experts in Cardiff and Newcastle to develop and test practical solutions that support patients to make informed and considered decisions about their own treatment and care. This snapshot provides an overview of the programme and explains why shared decision making is important.
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This working party report emphasises the role of patients as key participants in their own care. It includes a number of tools, such as decision aids, to help hospital and community teams assess and plan management of acutely unwell patients.