When you seek care, is the process is passive or participatory? How are decisions about your treatment made? Does your provider consider your preferences surrounding your care? Shared decision-making is a key mechanism for moving toward person-centered primary health care delivery. In a recent review available through the PHC Evidence portal, Hauser and colleagues assess the effect of shared decision-making on critical health outcomes, indicating that shared decision-making can strengthen provider-patient relationships, increase patient satisfaction, and improve clinical outcomes. Yet, more research is needed to develop scalable implementation pathways to support the integration of shared decision-making tools into routine care delivery and to generate standardized metrics to better assess this important function. Read on to learn more.

The latest guide from CHMI summarizes the learnings and active ingredients identified through the Primary Care Adaptation Partnership. Developed in collaboration with the participating programs, this guide builds off the knowledge they’ve accumulated over years of providing health care for the poor.

Ariadne Labs is developing a Primary Health Care Measurement and Implementation Research Consortium. This Consortium will bring together researchers and policy makers from multiple disciplines representing academic institutions, government agencies, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations to accelerate progress in primary health care (PHC) research in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). We are issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to develop a report on the gaps in measurement and improvement and approaches to address these knowledge gaps in one of four areas critical to effective PHC in these settings.