Patient Decision Making: A Case Study

Introduction Decision making is a process include many steps, these steps are: recognizing the issue, searching of possible solutions, Discussing uncertainties, Providing options with details, checking that patients and professionals understand the problem, Gaining feedback, Agreeing a course of action, Implementing the chosen treatment. And shared decision making means the involvement of patient in decision making. With shared decision making, patients and professionals work in partnership to make decisions about treatment and care. This report explains in first article the meaning of patient participation in decision making, the main factors which affect this process and what are the elements should be known for participation …show more content…
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Vahdat, S., Hamzehgardeshi, L., Hessam, S., & Hamzehgardeshi, Z. (2014). Patient involvement in health care decision making: A review. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, 16(1), 1-7. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezp.uod.edu.sa/docview/1503080944?accountid=136546 First article is entitled: Patient Involvement in Health Care Decision Making: A Review. This article talks about the participation of patients in decision making. Participation, involvement, collaboration, all these terminologies refer to shared decision making which means that the patient can make a decision about his own health condition or sharing information between patient and professionals. This process stand of understanding the plan of healthcare. Patient participation means cooperation for understanding information and recognizing responsibilities of the patient itself and it is refers to the relationship between patient and nurse. From another view, patient participation is cooperation for getting services through money and involvement in decision making. And providing information to the patients helps in empowering patient in making decisions. In other words, decision making is a process integral to social work practice, one where the provider/professional …show more content…
(2012). Perspectives on shared decision making in health care. British Journal Of Nursing, 21(17), 1042-1043. According to the article wrote by John Tingle, There is no universal definition for shared decision making and it is differs among patients and physicians. For example, a population in Norway; including clinicians, patients and health service managers convinced that patient involvement in decision making based on mutual respect and through discussion, this differs as well, respect was essential for patient while it was implied for professionals, and both anxious that the other side make a personal decision. Is shared decision making occurring? As an answer for this question, this report explains how does shared decision making occurring in four countries, which are: United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and Spain. Governments in UK allowedsome decision assistance honestly in websites .also, there are a number of specialist research centers and higher educational institutes' undertake some studies on shared decision making. On the other side, national policies in Switzerland concentrate on patient rights and involvement. There is no native program uplifting shared decision making but a little decision support tools have been improved. In France, patient participation in decision making is supported but the activation is slow. As same as UK, France has some researches of decision making but little at a national level. Last, Spain saw an improvement