Measuring Consumer Desire for Participation in Clinical Decision Making

AUTOR(ES)

Vertinsky, Ilan B.

RESUMO

A sample population of some two hundred subjects in Vancouver was surveyed to determine the physician/patient role orientations preferred by patients in clinical decision making. Eight dimensions of role orientations were identified, and indexes measuring these were defined. Index scores obtained for the population studied indicate that they wished to employ physicians as information sources and to a certain extent as decision makers, but that they also wished to have some input into the decision process. Analysis of sociodemographic and experiential variables did not identify any single variable that could predict role preferences.

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