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Leadership Rounds
Upcoming Leadership Scan Episode
To truly engage patients in shared decision-making and provide proper informed consent, clinicians not only need the appropriate risk data, but they need to share it with patients and document these conversations. Implementing tools that can deliver insights into perioperative risk can enhance patient safety and the delivery of care. In addition, where preference-sensitive conditions exist, the use of validated decision aids should be part of the shared decision-making.
These issues will be explored in detail in an AHA Leadership Scan episode, “Solutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent,” at 1 p.m. ET/noon CT on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Attendees will learn how to: