TY - JOUR ID - 2772 TI - Patient Choice Has Become the Standard Practice in Healthcare Provision: It is Time to Extend its Meaning; Comment on “Is Patient Choice the Future of Health Care Systems?” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Ewert, Benjamin AD - Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 1 IS - 3 SP - 227 EP - 228 KW - Patient Choice KW - Healthcare Users’ Roles KW - Voice KW - Interpersonal Trust KW - Equity DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2013.42 N2 - The key argument of this commentary is that patient choice has a broader meaning than suggested by consumerist choice models. In increasingly marketized health care systems with diversified and knowledge-based service arrangements, patients are continuously obliged to choose insurers, physicians or hospitals and treatments—whether they like it or not. However, health care users refer to a wide range of roles and resources while taking health-related decisions. They are patients, consumers and co-producers at the same time. Therefore, as it is argued, healthcare policies have to recognize users’ multiple identities by providing more balanced choice frameworks. In particular, two aspects are crucial: first, opportunities for users to voice worries and concerns and to co-design default options of health care choices; secondly, taking the significance of interpersonal trust in choice-making processes into account. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2772.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_2772_56a6dcd87d0117919eb10e3c545be188.pdf ER -