How to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent

To truly engage patients in shared decision-making and provide proper informed consent, clinicians not only need the appropriate risk data, but they need to share it with patients and document these conversations. Implementing tools that can deliver insights into perioperative risk can enhance patient safety and the delivery of care. In addition, where preference-sensitive conditions exist, the use of validated decision aids should be part of the shared decision-making.

These issues will be explored in detail in an AHA Leadership Scan episode, “Solutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent,” at 1 p.m. ET/noon CT on Tuesday, Dec. 12.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Share best practices on shared decision-making’s essential role in informed consent and pragmatic care.
• Assess the impact of shared decision-making on the patient experience, clinical outcomes and cost of care.
• Examine how social determinants of health impact informed consent and shared decision-making.
• Understand considerations when implementing shared decision-making processes and tools, including the use of decision aids where preference-sensitive conditions exist.