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Health Expectations
A major international journal driving developments in patient-focused health care and health policy
Edited by:
Vikki Entwistle
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 16/62 Health Care Sciences & Services; 31/105 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; 11/41 Health Policy & Services; 12/76 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (Social Science)
Impact Factor: 2.397
Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of public participation in health care and health policy, including:
- Patient-centred care and quality improvement
- Patients' participation in treatment decisions
- Public perceptions of health services
- Citizen involvement health care policy making and priority-setting
- Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation
- Empowerment and consumerism
- Patients' role in safety and quality
Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides a multi-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers from a variety of backgrounds can present their work to other researchers, policy makers, health care professionals, managers and consumer advocates.
TopNews and Announcements
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TopHighlights
Putting informed and shared decision making into practice
Angela Towle, William Godolphin, Garry Grams, Amanda LaMarre
Has patients' involvement in the decision-making process changed over time?
Atie van den Brink-Muinen, Sandra M. van Dulmen, Hanneke C.J.M. de Haes, Adriaan Ph. Visser, Francois G. Schellevis, Jozien M. Bensing
Inside the black box of shared decision making: distinguishing between the process of involvement and who makes the decision
Adrian Edwards, Glyn Elwyn
