Patient informed choice in the age of evidence-based medicine: IVF patients' approaches to biomedical evidence and fertility treatment add-ons

Perrotta, M (通讯作者),Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Business & Management, 327 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England.
2023-2
With the increasing offer of fertility treatment by a largely privatised sector, which has involved the proliferation of treatment add-ons lacking evidence of effectiveness, In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) patients are expected to make informed choices on what to include in their treatment. Drawing on interviews with 51 individuals undergoing fertility treatment, this article explores patients' approaches to medical evidence interpretation and its role in their decisions to include add-ons. While most IVF patients share understandings of what counts as medical evidence, our findings show how their approaches also differ. Our analysis focuses on how patients negotiate the notion of medical evidence and its relation to other forms of experience or knowledge. We present four different approaches to evidence in IVF: (1) delegating evaluations of evidence to experts; (2) critically assessing available evidence; (3) acknowledging the process of making evidence; and (4) contextualising evidence in their lived experience of infertility. We suggest that patients' choice to include add-ons is not due to a lack of information on or understanding of evidence, but rather should be interpreted as part of the complexity of patients' experiences of infertility.
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS
卷号:45|期号:2|页码:225-241
ISSN:0141-9889|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
University of London; Queen Mary University London
资助机构
Wellcome Trust(Wellcome Trust)
资助信息
Wellcome Trust, Grant/Award Number: 108577/Z/15/Z
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
1
2013以来使用计数
1
EISSN
1467-9566
出版年
2023-2
DOI
10.1111/1467-9566.13581
关键词
add-on treatment evidence evidence-based medicine fertility patients informed choice IVF
WOS学科分类
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences, Biomedical Sociology
学科领域
循证公共卫生 循证社会科学-综合 循证社会学