title: How do patients know?
abstract: The way patients make health care decisions is much more complicated than is often recognized. Patient autonomy allows both that patients will sometimes defer to clinicians and that they should sometimes be active inquirers, ready to question their clinicians and do some independent research. At the same time, patients' active inquiry requires clinicians' support.
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukla
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010358:Patient Participation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations