CollaboRATE Shared Decision Making Score

CollaboRATE is a patient-reported measure of shared decision making which contains three brief questions that patients, their parents, or their representatives complete following a clinical encounter. The CollaboRATE measure provides a performance score representing the percentage of adults 18 and older who experience a high level of shared decision making.

The measure was developed to be generic and designed so that it could apply to all clinical encounters, irrespective of the condition or the patient group. The measure asks the patient to evaluate the ‘effort made’ to inform, to listen to issues that matter to the patient, and to include those issues in choosing ‘next steps’. The items were co-developed with patients using cognitive interview methods.

CollaboRATE is designed for use in routine health care delivery. The brevity and the ease of completion were purposeful so the measure could be used as a performance metric for shared decision making.