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Headline
Models of shared decision-making for older people with complex health and care needs should be a series of conversations between patients, their families and different health and care professionals.
Abstract
Background:
Health-care systems are increasingly moving towards more integrated approaches. Shared decision-making (SDM) is central to these models but may be complicated by the need to negotiate and communicate decisions between multiple providers, as well as patients and their family carers; this is particularly the case for older people with complex needs.
Objectives:
To provide a context-relevant understanding of how models to facilitate SDM might work for older people with multiple health and care needs and how they might be applied to integrated care models.
Design:
Realist synthesis following Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards (RAMESES) publication standards.
Participants:
Twenty-four stakeholders took part in interviews.
Data sources:
Electronic databases including MEDLINE (via PubMed), The Cochrane Library, Scopus, Google and Google Scholar (Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA). Lateral searches were also carried out. All types of evidence were included.
Review methods:
Iterative stakeholder-driven, three-stage approach, involving (1) scoping of the literature and stakeholder interviews (n = 13) to develop initial programme theory/ies, (2) systematic searches for evidence to test and develop the theories and (3) validation of programme theory/ies with stakeholders (n = 11).
Results:
We included 88 papers, of which 29 focused on older people or people with complex needs. We identified four theories (context–mechanism–outcome configurations) that together provide an account of what needs to be in place for SDM to work for older people with complex needs: understanding and assessing patient and carer values and capacity to access and use care; organising systems to support and prioritise SDM; supporting and preparing patients and family carers to engage in SDM; and a person-centred culture of which SDM is a part. Programmes likely to be successful in promoting SDM are those that create trust between those involved, allow service users to feel that they are respected and understood, and engender confidence to engage in SDM.
Limitations:
There is a lack of evidence on interventions to promote SDM in older people with complex needs or on interprofessional approaches to SDM.
Conclusions:
Models of SDM for older people with complex health and care needs should be conceptualised as a series of conversations that patients, and their family carers, may have with a variety of different health and care professionals. To embed SDM in practice requires a shift from a biomedical focus to a more person-centred ethos. Service providers are likely to need support, both in terms of the way services are organised and delivered and in terms of their own continuing professional development. Older people with complex needs may need support to engage in SDM. How this support is best provided needs further exploration, although face-to-face interactions and ongoing patient–professional relationships are key.
Future work:
There is a need for further work to establish how organisational structures can be better aligned to meet the requirements of older people with complex needs. This includes a need to define and evaluate the contribution that different members of health and care teams can make to SDM for older people with complex health and care needs.
Study registration:
This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42016039013.
Funding:
The National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
Contents
- Plain English summary
- Scientific summary
- Chapter 1. Background
- Chapter 2. Methods
- Chapter 3. Results
- Description of included evidence
- Context–mechanism–outcome configurations
- Context–mechanism–outcome 1: reflecting patient and carer values
- Context–mechanism–outcome 2: systems to support shared decision-making
- Context–mechanism–outcome 3: preparing patients, carers and health and social care professionals for the shared decision-making encounter
- Context–mechanism–outcome 4: shared decision-making as part of a wider culture change
- Chapter summary
- Chapter 4. Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix 1. Details of search strategy
- Appendix 2. Details of studies and reviews on the use of patient decision aids
- Appendix 3. Schedules for stakeholder interviews phase 1
- Appendix 4. Interview schedule for phase 3
- List of abbreviations
About the Series
Article history
The research reported in this issue of the journal was funded by the HS&DR programme or one of its preceding programmes as project number 15/77/25. The contractual start date was in July 2016. The final report began editorial review in August 2017 and was accepted for publication in January 2018. The authors have been wholly responsible for all data collection, analysis and interpretation, and for writing up their work. The HS&DR editors and production house have tried to ensure the accuracy of the authors’ report and would like to thank the reviewers for their constructive comments on the final report document. However, they do not accept liability for damages or losses arising from material published in this report.
Declared competing interests of authors
Greta Rait is a member of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Commissioning Board and HTA Mental Health Panel and Methods Group. Claire Goodman is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) senior investigator and a trustee of The Orders of St John Care Trust. Marie-Anne Durand reports personal fees from EBSCO Health and the ACCESS Community Health Network outside the submitted work. There are no other financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years.
Last reviewed: August 2017; Accepted: January 2018.
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