Background: Patient participation means involvement of the patient in decision making or
expressing opinions about different treatment methods, which includes sharing information …

Background Increasing patient engagement in healthcare has become a health policy
priority. However, there has been concern that promoting supported shared decision-making …

Health informatics interventions are designed to help people avoid, recover from, or cope
with disease and disability, or to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Unfortunately …

Objective To investigate the association between low functional health literacy (ability to
read and understand basic health related information) and mortality in older adults. Design …

Shared decision making enables a clinician and patient to participate jointly in making a
health decision, having discussed the options and their benefits and harms, and having …

Patients are increasingly encouraged to become active players in self-care and shared
decision-making. Such attention has led to an explosion of terms–empowerment …

Background Despite international bodies calling for increased patient and family
involvement, these concepts remain poorly defined within literature on critical and intensive …

Background A comprehensive and agreed-upon definition of vaccine literacy (VL) could
support the understanding of vaccination and help policy-makers and individuals make …

PURPOSE We set out to compare patients' expectations, consultation characteristics, and
outcomes in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation, and to examine whether the …

The aim of this article was to critically analyse the concept of person-centred participation in
healthcare from patients' perspectives through a review of qualitative research findings. In …