Supportive resources on shared decision making
There are many different tools and resources that can help consumers and healthcare professionals share decisions together.
The range of tools and resources that can be used to assist shared decision making include:
- The Commission's decision support tools on ostearthritis of the knee, and use of antibiotics for sore throat, middle ear infection and acute bronchitis
- Other patient decision aids on particular conditions and treatments, which can be found at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s international inventory of decision aids.
- Generic decision guides to support people to plan, track and share health-related or social decisions such as the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide
- Question prompt such as the Question Builder, five questions and ask.share.know that can be used to guide a shared decision making discussion (see box 1)
- Top tips for safe health care
- The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights.
