Initially they shared medical personnel and facilities, intellectual property and mechanics.

The cleanliness of shared medical equipment may also pose current risk due to lack of cleaning.

Objective: Evaluate use of a web-based shared medical record (SMR) between older patients with diabetes and providers.

Methods used to capture such data often rely on verbal elicitation of reported use that tend to assume shared medical terminology.

It is critical that clinicians are able to effectively communicate complex risk-related data to patients to facilitate a shared medical decision.