Shared Decision Making In Health Care Essay

One of the biggest challenges in health care today is to reduce the cost. One of the sleep provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to encourage greater use of shared decision making in health care. We are all human and there for uniquely different, so one treatment that fits all. For many health situations in which there's not one clearly superior course of treatment, shared decision making can ensure that medical care better aligns with patients' preferences and values. The other part of this is no one person has the answer to everything. One approach is patient education and using written materials, Videos and other interactive electronics presentations that are designed to inform patient and their families about all the health care options out there. The goal of any treatment plan is to have the best possible outcome, with interaction with different members of the team educating people on the benefits and side effects the health care team’s skills and costs.
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In the United States, 10%–12% of overall health expenditures and 27%– 30% of Medicare’s budget are spent on end-of-life care. These costs are incurred by a disproportionate few; specifically, 30% of Medicare expenditures are attributable to 5% of beneficiaries who die each year. Most of these costs result from either life-sustaining care (eg, mechanical ventilation, resuscitation) or poorly coordinated care (eg, multiple emergency department visits and hospitalizations), which suggests there is potential to reduce or avoid some of these costs and also improve patient care. As the United States baby boomers ages, and life expectancy increases and the rise of chronic illness, it is imperative to develop treatment strategies to lower the costs. Such as Hospice care, advanced directives and palliative care improved the cost, care and quality of end of life care (Holland, Evered, & Center,