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We all want to collect honest, detailed insights with a Patient Shared Decision-Making survey, but creating a strong survey is a challenge. That’s why you can generate an AI-powered survey with a click, right here using Specific—fast, easy, effective.
Why Patient Shared Decision-Making surveys matter
Everyone in healthcare talks about shared decision-making (SDM), but too often, we overlook the patient’s lived experience. If you’re not running these surveys, you’re missing a goldmine of insights that could shape treatment planning, satisfaction, and health outcomes.
Patient engagement drives adherence: Research consistently shows that SDM improves patient satisfaction and treatment adherence—both critical for health outcomes [1].
Real gaps, real opportunity: In a recent U.S. study of more than 16,000 adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, only 47% reported optimal SDM experiences, while 10% described their experiences as poor [1]. That’s half of patients not getting what they need from these essential conversations.
Understanding barriers: In a 977-physician survey from China, 93.3% pointed to patients’ over-expectations of prognosis as a top barrier to SDM [2]. If we’re not asking about expectations and perceptions, we’re missing why decisions falter.
Long-term impact: SDM is crucial for chronic conditions, where ongoing alignment can mean the difference between controlled and uncontrolled illness [3].
If you’re not gathering structured feedback from patients on SDM practices, you’re handing off opportunities to improve—not just care, but relationships, outcomes, and even policy design.
Why use an AI survey generator for Patient feedback?
We’ve spent countless hours building and launching traditional surveys—drafting questions in Word, pasting into Google Forms, formatting responses in Excel. Not anymore. Our AI survey generator does the heavy lifting for you—for Patient Shared Decision-Making surveys, it uses proven question models, adapts to your context, and ensures no bias sneaks in. It’s a smarter, faster path to meaningful responses.
Here’s how it stacks up:
Manual Survey Creation | AI Survey Generator (Specific) |
Hours of work drafting, editing, formatting | Survey ready in seconds with one click |
Risk of vague, biased, or incomplete questions | Expert-informed, tested question library—AI shapes phrasing for clarity |
No follow-up or probing unless scripted by hand | Automatic smart follow-ups in real time |
Responses need manual sorting and spreadsheet analysis | Instant AI-driven summarization and insights |
Specific stands out by combining AI with a conversational survey experience. Respondents engage as if they’re chatting with a real person, not clicking dry radiobuttons. That boosts participation—and unlocks richer detail.
Want to see how it works? Try our AI survey builder on this page. For deeper inspiration or best practices, check out our detailed guide on how to create a Patient survey about shared decision-making.
Designing genuinely useful questions
If you’ve ever filled in a survey and thought, “What do they want from me?”—you’re not alone. We see it all the time. Vague or bias-filled survey questions deliver junk data. At Specific, we use AI to help you craft expertly phrased questions that pull honest, actionable responses every time.
Here’s an example:
Bad: “Did you like the doctor’s explanation?” (Ambiguous, invites yes/no answer, misses specifics)
Good: “What did you find most helpful—or confusing—about your doctor’s explanation of your treatment options?” (Open, prompting detail, neutral)
Our AI generator won’t let your survey get stuck at surface-level. It uses expert templates and best-practice language. If you’re doing it yourself, our tip: Avoid double-barreled, leading, or jargon-heavy questions. Focus on clarity, neutrality, and space for the patient’s voice. For more inspiration, you’ll find top sample questions in our guide best questions for Patient surveys about shared decision-making.
Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply
Here’s what makes AI-powered, conversational survey design a game changer: Specific listens and responds in real-time, adjusting to the answers patients give. When someone replies vaguely or hints at something, our AI knows to probe gently and gather the full story—just like a skilled interviewer. That’s not something you get from static forms.
Imagine skipping automated follow-ups:
Patient: “The explanation was okay.”
(Traditional survey: No follow-up. Data is unclear. Did the patient understand? What was missing?)
AI follow-up: “Could you share what part of the explanation you found most helpful—or what could have made it clearer for you?”
Now you uncover what truly worked and what didn’t, directly through context-aware, real-time conversation. These follow-up questions save you manual back-and-forth (no chasing people down by email).
Survey follow-ups make every response a conversation—this is why we call it a conversational survey. Try generating a survey and notice how the experience pulls deeper insights effortlessly.
Want to learn more about this feature? See how automatic AI follow-up questions work.
Ways to reach your Patient audience
You have options for delivering Patient Shared Decision-Making surveys. Choose what works for your context and audience:
Sharable landing page surveys – Send a unique link by email, SMS, or print it for clinic waiting rooms. Great for reaching Patient audiences in or outside a healthcare setting—no tech barriers, just click and start the conversation.
In-product surveys – Embed a conversational survey directly in your patient portal, health app, or EMR. Ideal for getting contextual feedback during or after a health management workflow, or right after a shared decision-making conversation.
If your Patient audience is primarily offline or you want to invite open participation, landing page surveys are the simplest. For digital health tools, in-product surveys capture feedback while the experience is still fresh. Not sure? You can easily try both with Specific.
Analyzing Patient Shared Decision-Making survey responses with AI
You don’t need to copy-paste answers into a spreadsheet or spend hours categorizing long patient comments. With Specific’s AI survey analysis features, every response is auto-summarized, key topics and pain points are highlighted, and you get actionable themes with a click. You can even chat with AI about your survey results—ask what the biggest patient concerns are, or how expectations differ across demographics. Learn more about how to analyze Patient Shared Decision-Making survey responses with AI or see the AI survey response analysis page for a closer look at these tools.
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