Supporting Patient Autonomy: The Importance of Clinician

that could， either directly or indirectly， purposefully or inadvertently， financial or otherwise， affect the development or reporting of their scholarly activity. ， which is funded by the Scottish Funding Council， Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorates and NHS Education Scotland. Alan Cribb currently holds an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship relating to patient involvement. Kirsten McCaffery is supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC Career Development Award 40286 and Program Grant no. 402764 to the Screening and Test Evaluation Program). This work was presented in part at a conference on “Enhancing decision making in healthcare practice” organised by and held at the University of Stirling on 29 September 2009. Conflict of interest statement None of the authors are aware of any conflicts of interest， The authors receive salary support from their respective universities. Vikki Entwistle's post is part-funded via the Alliance for Self Care Research，。