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Patient participation is a trend that arose in answer to medical paternalism. Informed consent is a process where patients make decisions informed by the advice of medical professionals. In recent years, the term patient participation has been used in many different contexts.
Public participation, also known as citizen participation or patient and public involvement, is the inclusion of the public in the activities of any organization or project. Public participation is similar to but more inclusive than stakeholder engagement .
Public involvement (or public and patient involvement, PPI) in medical research refers to the practice where people with health conditions (patients), carers and members of the public work together with researchers and influence what is researched and how.
Patient participation is a field related to shared decision-making but which focuses more specifically on the patient's role in the patient-physician relationship. There are certain patient characteristics that influence the extent of their participation. [ 28 ]
Decision aids are interventions or tools designed to facilitate shared decision-making and patient participation in health care decisions.. Decision aids help patients think about choices they face; they describe where and why choice exists; and they provide information about options, including, where reasonable, the option of taking no action. [1]
The first patient participation group was established in 1972 by Dr Peter Pritchard. The National Association for Patient Participation was established in 1978. in 2016 around 1250 PPGs were affiliated to it. Payment for running a Patient Participation Group was built into the GP contract in England from 2011 until 2015.
Participation - the most common level, where research happens one-way on or to people (eg as patients or controls). Participation in research appears as the broad base of the involvement triangle. This is because most people with any role in health and care research are research participants (subjects).
A day patient (or day-patient) is a patient who is using the full range of services of a hospital or clinic but is not expected to stay the night. The term was originally used by psychiatric hospital services using of this patient type to care for people needing support to make the transition from in-patient to out-patient care. However, the ...