Decision-Making for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Patient Priorities Care

Decision-Making for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Patient Priorities CareHelp your patients identify their health priorities so that you can provide care that addresses what matters most to them.

Learn about the Patient Priorities Care approach and complete ACP’s interactive online curriculum, developed in partnership with the Patient Priorities Care team. This 8-part series of microlearning activities (~10 minutes each) offers practical steps for clinicians and care teams to incorporate Patient Priorities Care effectively into practice.

Microlearning Activities

After completing each part's microlearning, you will have the opportunity to claim CME/MOC credit by completing a brief quiz.

Accreditation & Disclosures Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1

Part 1 Microlearning

Find out more about exploring patient preferences while considering potential tradeoffs in these activities. Take a few minutes to try the first activity and sign up for an 📲 email reminder to complete the series.

  1. What Is the Best Approach to Caring for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions?
    Get started learning the Patient Priorities Care framework through a short case involving a 77-year-old woman with multiple medical problems

  2. What Are My Patient’s Values?
    See examples of probing questions and communication tips for identifying health priorities for patients with multiple chronic conditions.

  3. How Can You Help Your Patient Set Actionable Goals?
    Learn how to translate your patient’s values into specific, realistic, and actionable health goals.

  4. What Symptom or Health Problem Is Most Interfering With Your Patient’s Goals?
    Use patient values and health goals to help you identify your patient’s most bothersome problem.

  5. What Are Your Patient’s Health Care Preferences and What Tradeoffs Will They Make?
    Guide conversations around tradeoffs and get tips for exploring your patient’s preferences.

Part 1 Quiz

Decision Making for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions Part 1 Quiz:
Information and CME/MOC

Visit this module to view the CME/MOC information and complete the MOC quiz to claim CME credit and MOC points for part 1 (activities 1-5).

Part 2

Part 2 Microlearning

  1. What Contributing Factors Are Impeding Your Patient’s Health Goals?
    Apply the important “consider steps” of the Patient Priorities Care framework and continue the case study by completing this first activity in part 2 of the series.

  2. What Interventions Best Address Your Patient’s Most Bothersome Problem?
    Determine which interventions to consider continuing, stopping, or starting based on the factors contributing to bothersome problems interfering with your patient’s health goals.

  3. How Can You Focus Communication and Decision Making on a Patient’s Health Goals and Priorities?
    Finish the case study and learn more strategies you can use to present intervention options and guide conversations with patients and other clinicians. After completing activities #6-8, you will have the opportunity to claim CME/MOC credit by completing a brief quiz.

Part 2 Quiz

Decision Making for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions Part 2 Quiz:
Information and CME/MOC

Visit this module to view the CME/MOC information and complete the MOC quiz to claim CME credit and MOC points for part 2 (activities 6-8).

How does Patient Priorities Care work?

Patient Priorities Care is an approach that involves aligning care among all of a patient’s clinicians with what matters most to that patient—especially older patients who have multiple chronic conditions for whom evidence-based medicine might not exist or be the best choice. It is about understanding each patient’s health outcome goals and health care preferences and ensuring that the care provided is in line with those goals. Patient Priorities Care resources address the What Matters “M”, the core element of the Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) 4Ms Framework: what Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility.