Revolutionizing Informed Consent: Empowering Patients with Certified Decision Aids

[...]a key challenge for assuring broader use of shared decision making is to move PDAs from research to use, from the lab to the clinic.[...]in 2012, the legislature empowered the Chief Medical Officer of the Health Care Authority (HCA) to certify PDAs.4 Then, in 2014, Washington State won a State...

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Published in:The patient : patient-centered outcomes research 2017-10, Vol.10 (5), p.537-539
Main Authors: Pope, Thaddeus Mason, Lessler, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountable Care Organizations
Back surgery
Cancer therapies
Cardiovascular disease
Certification
Chemotherapy
Clinical decision making
Clinical medicine
Collaboration
Commentary
Coronary vessels
Decision Making
Decision Support Techniques
Empowerment
Health Administration
Health care policy
Health Economics
Humans
Informed consent
Informed Consent - legislation & jurisprudence
Informed Consent - psychology
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Patient Participation
Patient Preference
Patients
Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes
Physician-Patient Relations
Power (Psychology)
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
United States
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Summary:[...]a key challenge for assuring broader use of shared decision making is to move PDAs from research to use, from the lab to the clinic.[...]in 2012, the legislature empowered the Chief Medical Officer of the Health Care Authority (HCA) to certify PDAs.4 Then, in 2014, Washington State won a State Innovation Models grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to bring shared decision making into mainstream clinical practice.The state's HCA purchases health care for more than two million individuals through two programs at a price tag of US$10 billion annually: 1.8 million are enrolled in Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) and another 350,000 are enrolled in the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) Program that covers eligible employees and retirees of state agencies and higher education institutions.Informed consent liability protections for shared decision making using certified decision aids signed into law 2012: WA State Health Care Authority medical director provided with legal authority to certify or recognize certifying entities meeting specified criteria based on IPDAS 2015:
ISSN:1178-1653
1178-1661
DOI:10.1007/s40271-017-0230-3