124 STAT. 529 PUBLIC LAW 111–148—MAR. 23, 2010 ‘‘(A) shall be designed to engage patients, caregivers, and authorized representatives in informed decisionmaking with health care providers; ‘‘(B) shall present up-to-date clinical evidence about the risks and benefits of treatment options in a form and manner that is age-appropriate and can be adapted for patients, caregivers, and authorized representatives from a variety of cultural and educational backgrounds to reflect the varying needs of consumers and diverse levels of health literacy; ‘‘(C) shall, where appropriate, explain why there is a lack of evidence to support one treatment option over another; and ‘‘(D) shall address health care decisions across the age span, including those affecting vulnerable populations including children. ‘‘(3) DISTRIBUTION.—The Director shall ensure that patient decision aids produced with grants or contracts under this section are available to the public. ‘‘(4) NONDUPLICATION OF EFFORTS.—The Director shall ensure that the activities under this section of the Agency and other agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, are free of unnecessary duplication of effort. ‘‘(e) GRANTS TO SUPPORT SHARED DECISIONMAKING IMPLEMENTATION.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a program to provide for the phased-in development, implementation, and evaluation of shared decisionmaking using patient decision aids to meet the objective of improving the understanding of patients of their medical treatment options. ‘‘(2) SHARED DECISIONMAKING RESOURCE CENTERS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide grants for the establishment and support of Shared Decision- making Resource Centers (referred to in this subsection as ‘Centers’) to provide technical assistance to providers and to develop and disseminate best practices and other information to support and accelerate adoption, implementation, and effective use of patient decision aids and shared decisionmaking by providers. ‘‘(B) OBJECTIVES.—The objective of a Center is to enhance and promote the adoption of patient decision aids and shared decisionmaking through— ‘‘(i) providing assistance to eligible providers with the implementation and effective use of, and training on, patient decision aids; and ‘‘(ii) the dissemination of best practices and research on the implementation and effective use of patient decision aids. ‘‘(3) SHARED DECISIONMAKING PARTICIPATION GRANTS.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide grants to health care providers for the development and implementation of shared decisionmaking techniques and to assess the use of such techniques. ‘‘(B) PREFERENCE.—In order to facilitate the use of best practices, the Secretary shall provide a preference in making grants under this subsection to health care
