Comparing Types of Implementation of a Shared Decision Making Intervention

A potential solution to improving asthma outcomes is the use of patient-centered approaches like Shared Decision Making (SDM), In the SDM process, patients and their health care providers are engaged jointly in making decisions about medical tests and treatments. The research team for this proposal was funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to build, disseminate and evaluate a novel Asthma SDM Toolkit - The Asthma Comparative Effectiveness Study. The Toolkit development was completed in 2010 and has been in evaluation for 2 years. This study will continue to evaluate the Toolkit in a wide array of practices across NC while testing a new method of dissemination.