Then, the organizers would consolidate stories, relate them, and build a shared understanding of common problems.
Of course, allowing patients to speak at length does not necessarily lead to constructive answers from doctors, nor to a shared understanding of the problems being discussed.
This needs to be sustained, intense, mutually respectful and focused on achieving a shared understanding of quality problems and joint working to put them right.
Designing a program without an established and shared understanding of a problem can be extremely costly and time-consuming.
The aim should be to create a shared understanding of the problem and foster a joint commitment to possible ways of resolving it.
The first thing to do in any cross-organizational assignment is to develop alignment and create a shared understanding of the problem, the situation, and the expectations.
Today, many of ILO's member states implement child labour surveys, helping us to produce reliable global statistics based on a shared understanding of the problem and as a result ILO recently published new estimates demonstrating that child labour has decreased from 245 million to 168 million over a period of 12 years.
Figure 2 models how they bought these schemas into the consultation to reach a shared understanding of the problem without necessitating a physical diagnosis.
There are strong links and informal connections within this community that are based on a shared understanding of the problem and long-term engagement in the sector.
As an emerging team their shared understanding of the patients' problems progressed in its complexity and they increasingly coordinated their work with other professions including the necessary expertise needed for the patients care.
This agrees well with patient-centred communication where validating patients' perspectives and understanding their psychosocial context are necessary to reach the common goal of shared understanding of the patients' problems as well as shared power and involvement in decisions regarding care and treatment, according to a report from the American National Cancer Institute [ 22].
