The SHARE Approach
AHRQ’s SHARE Approach is a clinician-led shared decision-making model with five essential elements for meaningful dialogue with patients exploring benefits, harms, and risks of options and what matters most to them. AHRQ offers a free workshop curriculum to train clinicians in skills and techniques to work with patients to make the best possible healthcare decisions.
Revised SHARE Approach Workshop
AHRQ recently partnered with the University of Colorado to update, revise, implement, and evaluate the SHARE Approach in primary care and cardiology practices. Nine out of ten clinicians agreed the SHARE Approach is useful for daily practice and would help them engage in shared decision making. Details about the project are in the final report and appendix.
The new streamlined SHARE Approach training curriculum has a flexible design for busy clinician teams. The Facilitator’s Guide (PDF, 393 KB) outlines a flexible approach to implement team training with asynchronous learning and group activities.
Videos
Each is 10-20 minutes (about 1 hour total) and can be viewed individually or as a group.
- Module 1: Essential Elements of Shared Decision Making.
- Module 2: Decision Aids: What They Are and How To Implement Them.
- Module 3: Communication Barriers and Solutions.
Supplemental Resources
- Conversation Starters (PDF, 255 KB)
- Using the Teach Back Technique (PDF, 228 KB)
- Health Numeracy: Communicating Numbers to Your Patients (PDF, 327 KB)
- Cultural Competence and Getting To Know Your Patient (PDF, 243 KB)
AHRQ PCORTF Dissemination and Implementation Project
The original and newly revised SHARE Approach training curriculum were developed as an effort to disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research funded by AHRQ’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund.
