Resources for Shared Decision Making
AHRQ Resources for Shared Decision Making
AHRQ has a wide variety of resources related to Shared decision making (SDM). You can find them at the following locations on this site:
- Professional Education and Training in SDM
- Implementation Tools and Resources for SDM
- Research in SDM
- Measures, Data, and Funding for SDM Research
Other Resources for Shared Decision Making
On this page, you will find links to free resources from elsewhere in the following three categories:
SDM Overviews
The following videos provide information about SDM, some of which could be used as part of an SDM awareness raising or training program.
Shared Decision Making 101 provides information about what SDM is, why it is important, and implementation considerations.
Shared Decision Making 103: Elevating Shared Decision Making to Uphold Equity describes barriers to health equity, SDM and its effect on health equity, and strategies that support SDM with vulnerable populations.
These videos, created by the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation (now the Informed Medical Decisions Program) and the MGH Health Decision Sciences Center, discuss the value of SDM and show examples of "poor" and "good" SDM practices.
You can access recordings of presentations made at past meetings of the Society of Medical Decision Making, such as this recording Dominick Frosch and Mary Politi, and Angela Fagerlin teaching the short course Introduction to Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids (~2.25 hours, presentation starts at timestamp 6:40).
SDM Implementation
Below are some tools to help you implement SDM in your setting.
The Implementation Toolkit from Ottawa Hospital provides guidance on implementing patient decision aids and providing decision support to patients.
MGH Health Decision Sciences Center features tools such as Decision Worksheets, instruments for measuring decision quality for several conditions, and the AHRQ-funded Shared Decision Making Process Scale and User Guide.
Shared Decision Making 102: Adopting Shared Decision Making describes implementing SDM in two organizations.
Decision Aids
Criteria for Judging the Quality of Patient Decision Aids
This checklist from the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaborative can help you assess the quality of a decision aid.
A to Z Inventory of Decision Aids
The Ottawa Hospital hosts this searchable database of up-to-date, available decision aids for specific decisions.
Care That Fits
The Mayo Clinic has developed decision aids and toolkits to support SDM implementation in practice.
Behavioral Health Decision Aids
These tools from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) focus on SDM in the context of mental health and substance use disorders.
- Decisions in Recovery: Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder–a decision aid on medication-assisted Treatment (MAT)
- Considering the Role of Antipsychotic Medications in My Recovery Plan–a decision aid on antipsychotic medications
