Hey Sanithia,
Clinical care is definitely heading towards incorporating more shared decision-making, which I think makes your project very relevant.
While you've mentioned some interesting stuff to explore here, it seems that training providers to utilize these skills may be the largest hurdle to improving rates of shared decision-making. Do we know what provider knowledge is of shared decision-making and how many have undergone any formal type of training in SDM? Are there some providers (NPs for instance) that may do this better? Also, in evaluating clinic visits during which shared decision-making was utilized, do we know if there are actually differences in time spent on the clinic visit?
I look forward to hearing more about this in some of you subsequent work.
Asa