Several of these functions may not be necessary when decision aids are available, particularly if men are known to be health literate and the decision aid allows for deliberation on values and preferences.
Nonetheless, the sample sizes allowed for fulsome deliberation around a variety of inputs and opinions, and for active participation in "communicative processes and will formation" [ 27].
Our results suggest that when a structured process that allows for informed deliberation is conducted, cancer patients and their families are able and willing to explicitly discuss the burdensome costs of cancer care, the opportunity costs they pose, and their preferred benefit choices under the difficult circumstances they face.
This back-door means of legislating does not allow for adequate debate about the merits of such sweeping policy changes, which deserve full deliberation by both chambers in the course of the normal legislative process.
"The two situations do share the similarity of government leadership attempting to limit debate and deliberation, and the ability of new technologies to bypass their efforts and allow for direct communication.
But Jerome Price, originally from Modesto, spoke for the majority when he said the deliberations should be secret, like those that led to the drafting of the United States Constitution, to allow for a more robust debate.
43 54 Offering a test that can be performed at home after sufficient time for decision-making is important, as we found in our pilot study that having to return to the clinic for an invasive test was identified as a barrier to testing, although it did allow some time for deliberation.
Starting three months earlier than normal, the process allows for longer and more open deliberations.
Equity, egalitarian North South partnerships and the global conceptualization of health were operationalized by bringing in experts from multiple LMICs to participate in and lead peer review deliberations thus allowing for Southern perspectives to prevail.
Other aspects deemed helpful were the fact that the dialogue brought together many parties who could be involved in or affected by future decisions related to the issue, and that it allowed for frank and off-the-record deliberations.
