Patients' Health-care Decision Making

here and in Canada; this is my first opportunity to pull these aspects together into what I hope will be a reasonably coherent pictures I am particularly indebted to my friend and colleague, Annette O’Connor, whose creativity and insight have contributed to the formulation and articulation of this framework in significant ways’:¡,4 I present it today because it may be helpful to others who are currently involved in or are initiating studies of patients’ decision making.