September, 2012

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Implementing Shared Decision Making on a Large Scale: Through Specialty Care

Health Dialog

To view the latest published results on the Group Health Cooperative decision aids implementation effort, click here. David Arterburn is Lead Author on the study. Group Health implemented decision aids on a large scale in an unusual way: through working directly with specialty care providers and their staff. . In 2009, as part of a quality-improvement program, Group Health leaders, providers, and staff started to implement 12 decision aids in six specialties: orthopedics, cardiology, urology,