Patients' initiative in decision-making

What is it about?

Though medical decision-making is usually initiated by doctors, patients do sometimes take the initiative in decision-making. This paper analyzes how chronic psychiatric patients do so through explicit and inexplicit requests for medication.

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Why is it important?

Psychiatrists tend to believe their patients lacks competence for participating in decision-making. This paper urges reconsidering this view by demonstrating how patients are competent in choosing between two types of requesting.