Table 5.

Shared learning method.

Description: Promotes provider–patient interactions and engagements that are guided by PCM as the basis for patient's self-validation of health issues, and team's valuing of what matters most to patients. It involves using PCM to encourage opportunities for the team to identify, connect, evaluate and understand in aligning with the patient's values, context and health status.
Possible tools and resources: EMR, patient portal, PCM outputs, community and educational resources 41, PCM interpretation guidance,43,44,63 PCM follow-up actions
Involves the four actions
Connect	By using PCMs as an outline for care visits where both patients and providers are viewing the measure to give a shared-language in communicating illness severity By having patients complete PCMs outside of a clinic visits to alert the team when they may need to reconnect
Evaluate	Significant changes outside of regular visits Determine trends over extended time periods
Understand	By offering a variety of related measures and resources for the team to interpret scores and decipher different aspect of the patient's health condition Relationship between PCM score and contextual changes
Identify	Priority issue for the patient based on their values and preferences Strategies to align with the patient's goals and context

PCM: patient-centered measurement; EMR: electronic medical record.