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Implement Sci. 2010 Oct 27;5:83. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-5-83.

Effective continuing professional development for translating shared decision making in primary care: A study protocol.

Implementation science : IS

France Légaré, Hilary Bekker, Sophie Desroches, Mary Politi, Dawn Stacey, Francine Borduas, Francine M Cheater, Jacques Cornuz, Marie-France Coutu, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Nora Ferdjaoui-Moumjid, Frances Griffiths, Martin Härter, Cath Jackson, André Jacques, Tanja Krones, Michel Labrecque, Rosario Rodriguez, Michel Rousseau, Mark Sullivan

Affiliations

  1. Research Center of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Hospital St-François D'Assise, Knowledge Transfer an Health Technology Assessment Research Group, 10 Espinay, Québec, QC, G1L 3L5, Canada. [email protected].

PMID: 20977774 PMCID: PMC2988066 DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-5-83

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Shared decision making (SDM) is a process by which a healthcare choice is made jointly by the healthcare professional and the patient. SDM is the essential element of patient-centered care, a core concept of primary care. However, SDM is seldom translated into primary practice. Continuing professional development (CPD) is the principal means by which healthcare professionals continue to gain, improve, and broaden the knowledge and skills required for patient-centered care. Our international collaboration seeks to improve the knowledge base of CPD that targets translating SDM into the clinical practice of primary care in diverse healthcare systems.

METHODS: Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), our project is to form an international, interdisciplinary research team composed of health services researchers, physicians, nurses, psychologists, dietitians, CPD decision makers and others who will study how CPD causes SDM to be practiced in primary care. We will perform an environmental scan to create an inventory of CPD programs and related activities for translating SDM into clinical practice. These programs will be critically assessed and compared according to their strengths and limitations. We will use the empirical data that results from the environmental scan and the critical appraisal to identify knowledge gaps and generate a research agenda during a two-day workshop to be held in Quebec City. We will ask CPD stakeholders to validate these knowledge gaps and the research agenda.

DISCUSSION: This project will analyse existing CPD programs and related activities for translating SDM into the practice of primary care. Because this international collaboration will develop and identify various factors influencing SDM, the project could shed new light on how SDM is implemented in primary care.

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