OPTION

The prelude...

What OPTION will you choose? You will face that decision many times today. Although you could consider that a decision burden you could also consider that a substantial opportunity. You have the OPTION to choose which way you consider it.

I posted OPTIONS almost a year ago, and CHOICE a month before that.

A year ago today I posted on FINISHING (reporting on the publication of RAPADAPTE as a methodology for high-quality efficient guideline development) but today I am taking the OPTION to report on a project that is GETTING STARTED.

Earlier this week I posted: STRETCH GOALS is what it will take to achieve a MISSION of: PROVIDE THE MOST USEFUL INFORMATION FOR HEALTHCARE DECISION-MAKING.

The exciting next steps...

There are many ways to provide the most useful information for healthcare decision-making. One of the most useful approaches would be to provide the most useful information to both the professional guide (doctor, nurse, health coach, etc.) and the recipient (patient, consumer, citizen, family member, caretaker, etc). Each need information to select the best OPTION when making healthcare decisions but each needs different information or needs the information differently, and being able to discuss it for a shared approach can be more empowering than isolated individual decision-making for such important decisions. I have posted on this many times, even suggesting WISDM as a new term to describe Well-Informed Shared Decision-Making.

Imagine if you could combine the best approach to knowing the right information for healthcare decision-making and the best approach for communicating the right information for shared decision-making in healthcare.

I am biased of course but there are now many research articles and BEST IN KLAS reports showing DynaMed Plus to be the best approach for knowing the right information in medicine -- current, accurate, comprehensive, transparent, evidence-based. And Option Grid is the best approach established for shared-decision making tools (patient decision aids) that can be used efficiently during patient encounters - brief, clear, unbiased, covering patients' frequently asked questions. Imagine if these efforts could be combined in some way.

A press release posted yesterday announces this is now happening, "allowing shared decision making to become a reality in the routine practice of healthcare"

Would you like to be involved? There are many ways, including an immediate opportunity for a Medical Evidence Analyst to join the team for this work.