Clinician use of the Statin Choice Shared Decision-making Encounter Tool in a Major Health System

Background Effective shared decision-making (SDM) tools for use during clinical encounters are available, but, outside of study settings, little is known about clinician use of these tools in practice. Objective To describe real-world use of an SDM encounter tool for statin prescribing, Statin Choice, embedded into the workflow of an electronic health record. Design Cross-sectional study. Participants Clinicians and their statin-eligible patients who had outpatient encounters between January 2020 and June 2021 in Cleveland Clinic Health System. Main Measures Clinician use of Statin Choice was recorded within the Epic record system. We categorized each patient’s 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk into low (