Recommendation (2018)4, adopted by the Ministers’ Deputies in March 2018, calls upon the authorities at all levels to adopt policy and measures to encourage and reinforce the participation of citizens ...

Although most older Americans prefer to actively participate in making health care decisions, those with four or more chronic conditions are less likely to prefer active decision making. Researchers ...

In general, all adults, regardless of diagnosis or condition, should be presumed competent to consent to participation in research unless there is evidence of serious disability that would impair ...

Many seriously ill patients receive much of their care at home from one or more family members. However, shared decision making (SDM)—the collaborative process whereby clinicians and patients work ...

Can power structures be optimized? The issue of transforming power structures, decision-making circuits and symbolic recognition within organizations is now central to the social sciences applied to ...