Patient-mediated interventions improve professional practice

Two types of patient‐mediated interventions, patient‐reported health information and patient education, improved professional practice by increasing healthcare professionals' adherence to recommended clinical practice (moderate‐certainty evidence). Patient information also improved professional practice (low‐certainty evidence). Patient-decision aids made little or no difference to the number of healthcare professionals who adhered to recommended clinical practice (low‐certainty evidence). The impact of these interventions on patient health and satisfaction, adverse events and resource use was more uncertain, mostly due to very-low-certainty evidence or lack of evidence.