Measuring Patient-Reported Shared Decision-Making to Promote Performance Transparency and Value-Based Payment: Assessment of collaboRATE's Group-Level Reliability.

Shared decision-making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is a key component of patient experience, but measurement efforts have been hampered by a lack of valid and reliable measures that are feasible for routine use. In this study, we aim to investigate RATE's reliability, calculate required sample sizes for reliable measurement, and compare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) patient experience survey items to RATE. RATE's provider group-level reliability reached acceptable reliability at 190 patient reports, while the CAHPS SDM measure demonstrated similar reliability at a sample size of 124. The CAHPS communication measure reached acceptable reliability with 55 patient reports. A strong correlation was observed between RATE and CAHPS communication measures ( = 0.83). As a reliable measure of SDM, RATE may be useful for both building payment models that support shared clinical decision-making and encouraging data transparency with regard to provider group performance.