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AHRQ Issues CDSiC Newsletter

Jul 23, 2025

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued its Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) newsletter.

Issue Number 31 | July 23, 2025
In this edition of the Insider, we share two resources that highlight the AHRQ CDSiC's key findings on core patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) topics: strengthening shared decision making and leveraging patient preferences data.
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Shared decision making is a collaborative process where patients are asked about their preferences, values, and goals, which are then considered along with clinical guidance to make the best decision for the patient.  AHRQ's SHARE Approach, a five-step shared decision making model, provides a framework for understanding how patients, caregivers, and clinicians can explore the benefits, harms, and risks of different options while aligning with what matters most to patients.

To help advance this important process, the AHRQ CDSiC created a new resource that details how PC CDS can support all five steps of the SHARE Approach.  It also includes a summary of the AHRQ-funded CDS for Chronic Pain Management project as a real-world example of how PC CDS can support shared decision making.  With this resource, patients and clinicians alike can better understand how PC CDS tools support data collection, communication, and information exchange for shared decision making.

Check out all of the AHRQ CDSiC's shared decision making resources here!
Patient preferences reflect how patients wish to interact with their clinician, choose a particular course of action for their care, or prioritize specific healthcare outcomes.  Using patient preference data to inform decision making can help ensure patients receive the care that they want and need.

The AHRQ CDSiC has explored how PC CDS tools can help collect patient preference data and apply this information in clinical care, making sure healthcare decisions are more personalized and better align with patients' priorities.  Key findings are summarized in a new resource that highlights when and how PC CDS can support the collection and use of this important data.  The resource also provides three example patient journeys, which demonstrate how preferences might be collected for PC CDS in different healthcare scenarios.

Access all of the AHRQ CDSiC's resources on patient preferences here!
In April, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published a paper developed by the AHRQ CDSiC Innovation Center that shares a unified PC CDS performance measurement framework.  The framework incorporates patient-centered principles into traditional health information technology evaluation approaches, and includes six domains and 34 subdomains that can be selected to assess performance.  Stakeholders can use this framework to identify the domains that best align with their particular PC CDS intervention or specific research focus.

Read the full paper here!
 
The Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) is a community of broad, diverse stakeholders at the forefront of using technology to better support care teams, patients, and caregivers.  The CDSiC is working toward healthcare decisions that are driven by both patient-centered and patient-specific information and that align with patient needs, preferences, and values.  The CDSiC is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as part of a multi-component initiative to help advance patient-centered outcomes research into practice through CDS.  For any inquiries regarding the CDSiC you may contact the project team at: CDSiC@norc.org.