What should patients learn? Co-designing patient education to improve medication safety, professional-patient communication, and partnership

Information asymmetry provides a framework to understand why some patients defer decision-making to professionals while also showing the greatest interest in the partnership module. It also highlights why it is important for professionals to tell patients about their desire for patient ownership of care-engaged patients provide better information to professionals, who might otherwise work with incomplete records. To improve medication safety, patient education efforts should include a focus on how patients can partner with HCPs and be mindful of the work system barriers that patients will encounter while performing the educational work. Successful efforts stand to improve patient outcomes by reducing information asymmetry and enabling shared decision-making.