Lane Stiles, Director of Patient Education for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joined our Best Practices hosts to “SHARE the Knowledge” about shared decision making. Shared decision making is a patient engagement strategy that focuses on creating collaborative conversations between the patient and provider.

The current healthcare climate places patients in a reactive role, but shared decision making is an invitation to patients, offering them a reason to actively participate. When patients are involved in their healthcare and own their decisions, studies have shown that patients are more likely to follow a care plan, to take their medications as prescribed, to be satisfied with their care, and to accept outcomes, even adverse ones.

This approach to engage patients solves numerous downstream issues and allows providers to personalize and communicate risk. Shared decision making places the patient at the center of their healthcare team.

Shared decision making is a simple concept, one that makes sense and is a rational patient engagement strategy, but it requires practice for providers and teams to do it well.

Podcast Episode Resources

To learn more about the resources referenced in this episode, please see the following links:

CMS: https://www.cms.gov/ TCPI: https://tinyurl.com/tcpi19 MidSouthPTN: https://midsouthptn.com/Vanderbilt University Medical Center: https://ww2.mc.vanderbilt.edu/What is Shared Decision Making: http://tinyurl.com/shareddecisionmaking19 Mayo Clinic Decision Making: https://shareddecisions.mayoclinic.org/