title: Who should decide how much and what information is important in person-centred health care?
abstract: Most guidelines for clinical practice, and especially those for the construction of decision support tools, assume that the individual person (the patient) needs to be in possession of information of particular sorts and amount in order to qualify as having made an 'informed decision'. This often implicitly segues into the patient having made a 'good decision'. In person-centred health care, whether, in what form, and with what weight, 'information' is included as a criterion of decision quality is a matter for the person involved, to decide in the light of their own values, preferences, and time and resource constraints.
authors.affiliation: PhD student, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark mkaltoft@health.sdu.dk.
authors.forename: Mette Kjer
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Kaltoft
authors.affiliation: Professor, Head of Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jesper Bo
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.affiliation: Professor, Head of School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salkeld
authors.affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Health Impact Analysis, Public Health and Policy Faculty, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dowie
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D035502:Trust
keywords: decision quality; decision support; informed decision; multi-criteria decision analysis