BACKGROUND High-quality care for patients faced with infertility should be patient-centred. Few studies have provided in-depth insights into the patient's perspective on care and, to the best of our knowledge, no study has provided a model of the complex concept 'patient-centred infertility care'. Therefore, a qualitative study aimed at understanding 'patient-centred infertility care' from the ...

Involvement of patients and the public is meant to be at the heart of the coalition government’s health policy. Liberating the NHS claims to “strengthen the collective voice of patients and public.” Patient participation groups are one way in which the views of patients might be heard more clearly in future. Such groups emerged more than 30 years ago but have been slow to gain hold. In 2007, 41...

This study used a combination of quantitative and qualitative analytic approaches to examine the nature of patient participation in medical consultations. The hospital clinic interviews of 101 rheumatology outpatients were analysed using the Verbal Response Mode coding scheme. Patient participation was, in general, low throughout the consultation. In addition, high patient participation was sig...

OBJECTIVE Patient-centred depression care approaches should better address barriers of insufficient patient information and involvement in the treatment decision process. Additional research is needed to test the effect of increased patient participation on outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess, if patient participation in decision-making via a shared decision-making intervention leads ...