Advanced Shared Decision-Making Strategies

Course overview

In today's healthcare climate, with declining reimbursement structures and increasing demand for improved outcomes, therapists are challenged to do more with less. Shared decision-making is a collaborative communication strategy that doesn't add more time to your visit but can be challenging if your patient has trouble understanding healthcare information. This course, designed for physical and occupational therapists as well as speech-language pathologists, will explore the impact of low health literacy in a therapy setting and provide more advanced application strategies, like patient-reported outcome measures, motivational interviewing, and teach-back, that can make a big impact on outcomes, especially in the more challenging patients.