Question

What is “shared decision-making”? What are its intended benefits? How does the Affordable Care Act encourage the use of shared decision-making? What are some examples of state efforts to promote shared decision-making? What are some of the key barriers to the use of shared decision-making?

Answer 1

Shared decision making is one the key components of health care which is patient centred. It is a process in which clinicians and patients work together to make decisions and select tests, treatments and care plans based on clinical evidence that balances risks and expected outcomes with patient preferences and values.

Some of the intented benefits of shared decision making are - incraesed patient knowldge, less patient anxiety, improved health outcomes and reductions in unwanted variations in cost of care.