Patient engagement in healthcare: pathways for effective medical decision making

摘要: Making patients protagonists of decisions about their care is a primacy in the 21st century medical ethics. Precisely, to favor shared treatment potentially enables patients’ autonomy and self-determination, protects rights make own future care. To fully accomplish this goal, medicine should take into account complexity healthcare decision making processes: may experience dilemmas when having that not only concern patient role/identity but also involve psychosocial impact treatments on overall life quality. A deeper understanding expected role process across illness journey optimal implementation practice day-to-day agenda. In paper, authors discuss value assuming Patient Health Engagement Model sustain successful pathways for effective throughout patient’s course. This model its relational implication clinical encounter might be base an innovative “patient-doctor agenda” able “engagement-sensitive” making.