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Shared Decision Making Project Newsletter

Issue 1, May 2020

Contents:
  1. Implementing Shared Decision Making workshop
  2. Quick prompt guide for SDM
  3. Examples of decision aids adapted for Canada's COVID response
What's been happening?
We hope everyone is staying healthy and well in these turbulent COVID 19 times. With the pandemic response in full swing, we know most of your pilot projects have been put on hold. With this first newsletter we are keeping this brief and just sharing a couple SDM tools that might be of interest. 

While your focus has been on the urgent and immediate needs, we have been preparing the Community of Practice website to be ready for when you can focus on new quality improvement initiatives, like Shared Decision Making, once again. This Community of Practice is a hub of resources, references, tools, and training opportunities for anyone implementing SDM at their health service and is expected to go live at the end of May. 
As we know all too well, the COVID 19 crisis has resulted in a number of changes to healthcare options, risk factors, patient preferences and available services. There is a very important role for SDM to be used with patients and their families with so much in flux. In this newsletter we will share with you some examples of decision aids adapted to the COVID 19 situation, and other tools you may find helpful.  
Implementing Shared Decision Making Workshop - Part 2
It seems a world away now, but we want to thank you all for your patience, flexibility and perseverance in attending what must have been one of the first mixed mode workshops of the emergency. 

Overall your evaluations indicated that the workshop was a success and that it resulted in an increased confidence and understanding of what to do next with your SDM pilot projects. Highlights of the workshop you described included getting access to tools, Dawn's expertise and many of you appreciated learning what the other sites were doing. 

We do know that the disruption will mean that we will need to run some sort of revision webinar, and adapt the direct support we can provide to you when you start your pilot activities again. As the timelines start to become clearer we will share these with you.

We do recommend that you try to keep some of the SDM training alive and active if possible. Have a look at the tools we are sharing in this newsletter or contact Nami about how you can phase in small activities to progress your SDM planning or decision aid development.  

If you are also need to be sent copies of the planning and other templates we used in the workshop, please email Nami directly (n.nelson@latrobe.edu.au)
Unfortunately we were so busy running the day we didn't remember to take a photo until there was only a few of us left! Thanks for being part of a great day. 
Quick and easy - SDM Prompt cards for health professionals
Some of the health professionals at your service may want to start integrating SDM into their daily practice rather than just putting everything on hold. To help you facilitate this, we have created a 3 step SDM Quick Prompt card. These are designed to be small enough for a business card/lanyard that people can carry with them if needed. 

Implementing the 3 steps will help you increase familiarity with SDM and begin shifting practice/behaviours that will make implementing a more comprehensive SDM project that reflects international standards easier.  

If you and/or some of your colleagues choose to use these quick prompt cards please email Nami (shared.decision.making@latrobe.edu.au). We would love to get some feedback about how they worked and if they were useful in helping get the changes started toward more comprehensive SDM activities. 
Download SDM Quick Prompts [word file]
Decision aids - adapting for COVID 19: an example by Professor Dawn Stacey for a Canadian audience
Professor Dawn Stacey and her team at the University of Ottawa have been adapting decision aids to support patients with new or changed decisions taking place during COVID-19. There are some critical decisions that I am sure many of your patients are being faced with during this crisis that a decision aid could help them with. The decision aid example here provides patients and their families with 5 steps to help make a decision about whether to move from a retirement home/assisted living back to the family home or with a friend during the pandemic. 

The information in this decision aid reflects Canadian policy and will obviously differ from what we would need to include. Please let us know if you are interested in adapting this to the Australian policy/guidelines context. 

Dawn is also seeking any feedback on this decision aid. Please contact her team directly with your feedback at decisionaid@ohri.ca.
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