Society for Participatory Medicine

The Society for Participatory Medicine (S4PM) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the concept of participatory medicine, where providers and patients closely collaborate in medical decision making and patients participation is encouraged and valued. Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that seeks to achieve active involvement by patients, professionals, caregivers with in a patient centered culture based on transparency and empathy. The goal of such collaboration is to decrease medical errors, improve patient education, increase patient satisfaction and improve outcomes.