Patient participation in treatment decisions boosts compliance

Evidence

Let patients participate in decisions: When they make a choice from treatment alternatives, after appropriate education, compliance increases and so does the likelihood that they will follow through with treatment consistently. Illness creates a painful feeling of helplessness. Every small decision that can be made is reassuring and restores a sense of control. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 642