Shared decision making in chronic kidney disease

On completion of this continuing professional development activity, participants should be able to: Articulate important evidence-based recommendations regarding shared decision making, for persons with chronic kidney disease. Suggest practical strategies to improve decision making, taking the individual's context into account. Recognise that shared decision making encompasses the entire realm of kidney disease. Suggest how decision aids may assist patients in recognising what's important to them. Reflect upon how clinicians may empower patients to recognise changing options as they develop, through their evolving disease trajectory. Acknowledge that not all patients with kidney disease wish to be actively involved in the shared decision-making process - although this should never he assumed.