Who should decide how much and what information is important in person-centred health care?

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.... We do not need the concept of an ‘informed decision’, only that of a good, better or best possible decision. For none of these will there be a definition that is not multi-dimensional and therefore preference-sensitive. The question is to whose preferences should the definition be sensitive? There can only be one answer: the patient’s – or the person’s if they are not a patient.