Making decisions about our health is important. You can worry if you need to decide to have medical tests and treatments. Sometimes the decisions we need to make, mean we need to learn new information that is hard to understand. Health professionals want to share decision-making about your care.
These tips will help you to share decisions with the health professionals looking after you:
- Ask questions about what you don’t know.
- Say what you are worried about.
- Share what you will or won’t do.
We suggest you use the Ask Share Know questions. They will help you to learn more about tests, treatment or care.
- What are my options? (including wait and watch)
- What are the possible benefits and harms of those options?
- How likely are each of those benefits and harms to happen to me?
The Ask Share Know questions give you words to use when you speak to a health professional.
Share what is important and what matters most to you. Share what you prefer to do.
The Ask Share Know questions will help you learn more about tests, treatment and care options.
This knowledge will help you make a decision that is right for you.
