Stakeholders involved in drug development, evaluation, and clinical use are presently calling for evidence-based insights into ways for assessing and including patients’ preferences in a meaningful and systematic manner. The same applies to other medical interventions, such as medical devices, tools and techniques, the most various procedures from surgery and drug treatment to patient psychological support. A wide-spread implementation of robustly designed patient involvement methods in all steps of clinical processes will amplify patients’ unique voices.
This collection welcomes articles that offer insights into patient preferences and participation, shared decision-making tools and methods, and patient-reported outcomes measures.
Articles should ideally offer methodological learnings and proposed ways for systematically integrating preference studies in medical research and practice, complementing existing methods and fostering targeted multi-stakeholder discussions and internationally accepted recommendations and guidelines.
