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- Informed decision making in healthcare is increasingly seen as both a personal right and an individual responsibility, emphasizing the need for citizens to make knowledgeable choices about their treatment.
- To support this, the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ) has focused on creating reliable and high-quality patient information for over ten years.
- ÄZQ's work is guided by four key principles: developing patient-friendly versions of clinical guidelines, ensuring the quality of patient information, providing insights into the German healthcare system, and continuously improving quality standards and methods.
Article Abstract
The concept of informed decision making does not only comply with the ideals of the self-determining citizen. In politics and society it is more and more understood as an individual obligation. In order to be capable of making competent decisions regarding treatment options, citizens have to be provided with high quality information. With the aim of facilitating patients' and consumers' orientation in health care questions, the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ) has been committed to developing and promoting the use of reliable patient information for more than ten years. ÄZQ's activities are based on four main principles: development of patient versions of high quality clinical practice guidelines; provision of patient information which has been assessed according to its formal quality; provision of information on the German health care system (checklists); further development of quality standards and methods.
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