Ressources
On this page, you will find all the aids and training programs from the Chair.
Shared decision making tools
The Canada Research Chair in Shared Decision Making and Knowledge Translation is developing tools related to shared decision making. In order to facilitate shared decision making implementation in different health contexts, these tools are available in different formats and for different types of knowledge users.
Decision aids
Should I Take the Serum Integrated Test to Screen for Fetal Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome)?
This decision support tool is intended for pregnant women and their partners. It will help you make an informed decision about prenatal screening for trisomy 21. You will have to decide whether or not to do prenatal screening for trisomy 21. This tool was developed in 2015.
Decision aids
To Get the Care and Services I Need, Should I Stay in My Home or Move?
This decision aid is for seniors who are thinking about whether it is best to stay in their home or move to get the care and services they need. The decision aid is also for caregivers who are thinking about this on behalf of a senior.
Decision aids
Vasectomy: Is It the Right Choice for Me?
Do you need a tool to help you make the decision to have a vasectomy? Deciding whether or not to have a vasectomy as a contraceptive method can be a difficult choice for many men given the permanent nature of the method and the need for surgery. This decision support tool informs and guides you if you are unsure whether a vasectomy is the best option for you.
Decision aids
Antibiotic or No Antibiotic?
This clinical diagnostic decision support tool will help you make the decision about whether or not to use antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis, acute bronchitis, acute tonsillopharyngitis and acute otitis media.
Decision aids
Options to ensure the quality of life and comfort of elderly people living with memory and attention disorders
This tool offers 10 concrete options to support elderly people living with memory and attention disorders. It facilitates shared decision-making by highlighting individual preferences and personal values.
Videos on shared decision making
Tools in video format to facilitate the implementation of shared decision-making.
Videos
Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome: To Test or Not to Test?
In order to support pregnant women as well as their partners and the care team that accompanies them in making the right choice between "doing a prenatal screening test for trisomies 21, 18 and 13" or "not doing a prenatal screening test for trisomies 21, 18 and 13", we have developed a decision support tool and a video capsule that presents this tool.
Videos
A tool for Choosing Where to Grow Old
In order to help seniors, their loved ones and the care team that accompanies them make the right choice between "Staying at home" or "Moving out", we have developed a decision aid and a video that presents the tool.
Videos
Use of Antibiotics for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
In order to better assist health care users in making decisions about whether or not to use antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis, acute bronchitis, acute tonsillitis and acute otitis media, we have developed a decision support tool and a video that presents this decision aid.
Questionnaires on la prise de décision partagée
Tools in questionnaire format to facilitate the implementation of shared decision-making.
Questionnaires
The CPD Reaction Questionnaire
The The CPD Reaction Questionnaire is a theoRy-basEd instrument to assess the impACT of continuing professional development activities on professional behavIOr chaNge. The CPD reaction questionnaire development was funded by a Partnership for Health System Improvement grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR; 2010-2013; grant # 200911PHE-216868-PHE-CFBA-19158) and by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec (MSSS), QC, Canada.
Questionnaires
ISSaQ 4.0: Innovation Scalability Self-Administered Questionnaire
The ISSaQ 4.0 tool enables health and social services innovation teams to assess the scaling potential of their innovations. It is a self-administered questionnaire.
Professional Training
Our team specializes in training healthcare professionals by helping them developing the skills that will allow them to promote patient participation in decision making.
The training offered by our team mainly targets medical students, residents in family medicine, and practicing healthcare professionals.
Training for Practicing Healthcare Professionals
When it is difficult to make a decision- Training for Practicing Healthcare Professionals
Download PDFBy France Légaré
90 minutes workshop
Objectives- Recognize clinical situations in which the patient is likely to experience difficulty making a decision;
- Identify patients who are faced with difficult decisions;
- Identify modifiable factors that contribute to the patient's decision ;
- Recognize the facilitators and barriers to integrating new knowledge into the practice of family medicine.
Target Audience
Family physicians, residents, nurse clinicians, health professionals (ideally members of interdiscipinary patient care teams)
Teaching Methods
Presentations, video demonstrations, reflective discussion
Evaluation
This training workshop was evaluated and the results published in Medical Decision Making
DÉCISION+ Training Program- Training for Practicing Healthcare Professionals
By France Légaré, Michel Labrecque, Annie LeBanc, and the DÉCISION+ team
540 minutes workshop
Objectives-
A program of 3 workshops of 3 hours each
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Estimate as accurately as possible the diagnostic probabilities of acute respiratory tract infections: acute rhinosinusitis, acute pharyngotonsillitis, acute bronchitis, acute otitis media
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Understand the risks and benefits of all available therapeutic options, including “doing nothing”
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Effectively communicate these risks and benefits
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Encourage active patient participation in decision-making
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Promote shared decision-making regarding antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections
Target Audience
Family physicians, family medicine residents
Teaching Methods
Workshop, video demonstration, reflective discussion
Evaluation
Does training family physicians in shared decision making promote optimal use of antibiotics for acute respiratory infections? Study protocol of a pilot clustered randomized controlled trial-
Shared Decision Making - Training for Family Medicine Residents
Download PDFBy France Légaré and Michel Cauchon
90 minutes workshop
Objectives
- Identify clinical situations that are appropriate for shared decision making;
- Identify the principal elements of shared decision making;
- Integrate screening for decisional conflict (also known as decisional comfort) into his/her practice;
- Present the principal characteristics of decision aids that facilitate shared decision making.
Target Audience
Medical residents in Familiy Medicine
Teaching Methods
Presentations, role play, reflective discussion
Shared Decision Making with the Patient - Training for First-Year Medical Students
Download PDFBy France Légaré, Dawn Stacey, Maria De Koninck et Nathalie Brière
120 minutes workshop
Objectives- Explain the “finding common ground” element in the patient-centred clinical method (PCCM);
- Recognize the importance of finding common ground with the patient so as to facilitate his/her adherence to diagnostic and therapeutic interventions;
- Identify the principal approaches to finding common ground with the patient, both in clinical situations where a best choice is clear (scientific certainty) or and in clinical situations where it is impossible to guarantee a given result;
- Present the patient with the principal elements of shared decision making and describe the principal characteristics of decision aids that favour shared decision making.
Target Audience
First-year medical studentsTeaching Methods
Presentations, role play, reflective discussions
Scaling up
Two online training courses on scaling up by l’Unité de soutien au système de santé apprenant (SSA) Quebec
The support unit has published two asynchronous online training courses on scaling up innovations in health and social services:
The LENGAGE training course
- Are you a citizen? This training will allow you to learn more about how to get involved in projects to scale up innovations in health and social services.
- Are you a researcher? A manager or public policy officer? An innovator? A health and social services professional? This training will allow you to learn more about how to engage citizens in projects to scale up innovations in health and social services.
The éLARGIE training course
At the end of this training, you will be able to assess the potential for scaling up an innovation in health and social services using the ISSaQ 4.0 self-administered questionnaire.
Self-Training on Shared Decision-Making for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis of Trisomies
Self-Training on Shared Decision-Making for Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis of Trisomies
As part of our project to evaluate the effectiveness of our scaling-up strategies on the involvement of pregnant women in shared decision-making regarding prenatal screening for trisomies 21, 18, and 13, we have developed several tools. Among these is a training module on shared decision-making for healthcare professionals, available on the Pédagogia platform of the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval.
We have also designed a decision-support tool, available on Greybox, for pregnant women in the province of Quebec.
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