A decision-support process that begins with the person.
WISE Consent™ is designed to connect clinical information with the life of the person who will experience the consequences of the decision. It does not calculate a best treatment or make the decision for the patient.
What Matters Most
Start with the patient’s goals, concerns, values, and daily-life priorities.
Inform With Evidence
Support access to understandable information about benefits, risks, alternatives, and uncertainty, with questions identified for clinician confirmation.
Support Understanding
Help people make sense of unfamiliar information, organize questions, and express what they understand in their own words.
Empower Decisions
Help people communicate preferences, identify unanswered questions, and clarify next steps without directing treatment choices.
The eight WISE Consent™ concepts
Helps people identify the goals, responsibilities, relationships, and daily activities they most want to protect.
WISE Values and Life Impact™
Encourages people to consider how their health and possible care choices may affect daily life, independence, well-being, work, and relationships.
WISE Quality-of-Life Reflection™
Helps people organize questions and consider clinician-discussed options using balanced, patient-relevant information without recommending a treatment.
WISE Treatment and Therapy Explorer™
Helps surface unanswered questions, missing information, unclear tradeoffs, and concerns that may need further discussion with a clinician.
WISE Decision Gap Detection™
Makes complex information easier to process and helps people identify what they understand and what still needs clarification.
WISE Understanding Support™
Approved strategies transition to implementation under disciplined governance.
WISE Decision Journey™
Provides a concise, patient-controlled summary of key concerns, questions, uncertainties, and next steps for use in healthcare conversations.
WISE Patient Decision Brief™
A research-stage concept designed to help identify quality-of-life priorities that may be important to a healthcare decision.
WISE Quality of Life Check-In™
Disclaimer: These concepts support preparation, understanding, and communication. They do not provide medical advice, recommend treatments, replace conversations with qualified clinicians, or establish informed consent.