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Shared Decision Making Programme: Communicating harm and benefits for Perioperative Medicine
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Intended audience group 2:
Perioperative medicine professionals
This version of the course is part of the overall Shared Decision Making Programme. Each version is designed to help clinicians with this specialty develop skills for communicating effectively with patients about the risks and benefits of treatment options.
There are four sessions and by the end of each course, 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
e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH)
This programme is freely available to anyone via their “Open Access” registration. Please note your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion.
Only NHS staff who register and log in will provide evidence of learning.
