Palliativberatung im Modellvorhaben „Patienten als Partner - Tumorpatienten und ihr Mitwirken bei medizinischen Entscheidungen”

Patient participation and shared decision making in Germany – history, agents and current transfer to practice

“…Controlled studies have been made possible in large part by this research program [5]. Studies were implemented within five areas of internal medicine (hypertension [7], respiratory illnesses, arterial obstructive disease, breast cancer [8][9][10] and palliative care [11,12]) as well as five areas in the fields of neurology and psychiatry (multiple sclerosis [13][14][15][16], chronic pain [17][18][19], alcohol abuse [20], depression [21][22][23][24] and schizophrenia [25][26][27]). Furthermore, many questionnaires for the measurement of processes and outcome of shared decision making were Studies are proposed within the three themes ''Need-specific patient information'' (1), ''Patient education programs for chronically ill patients'' (2) and ''Organisation of participatory structure of health care'' (3) (www.…”

Patient and citizen participation in German health care - current state and future perspectives

“…The aim of the study was the enhancement of the physician-patient communication and patient empowerment concerning patients' awareness of treatment needs and autonomy at the end of life [31]. A palliative care consultation team was established but had no influence on the chosen dependent variable, which was the place of death or hospitalisation in the last days of life [32].…”