Helping patients make informed decisions

Content

Four modules on communicating risks and benefits and shared decision-making including the topics of:

• Helping patients make good decision
• Why risk communication is important
• Models of shared decision-making
• Choice talk (explaining options)

Depth

Basic to intermediate

Target audience

Healthcare professionals

Time to complete

2 hours to complete the four modules

Authors

Dr Raquel Newman, Professor Chris Del Mar, Professor Tammy Hoffman, and the Risk Communication Project Steering Group

Comments

This course challenge myths about shared decision-making in practice and explain how to use patient decision aids and where to find them. By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

• describe why it is important for clinicians to effectively communicate benefits, harms, trade-offs, and uncertainties with patients
• explain the inter-relationship between shared decision making, evidence-based medicine and patient-centred care in the context of communicating benefits and
• list key communication skills needed when talking with patients about evidence
• explain how to effectively communicate statistical information to patients
• outline the role of decision support tools, potential uses and where to locate them.

Registration required

No

Payment required

No

Student support

No

Certificate

No

Country of origin

Australia

Web Address

https://communicatingrisk.safetyandquality.gov.au/