PubMed Central, : RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2012 July; 3(3): e0017. ISSN: 2076-9172Published online 2012 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10085.

Table 1.

Framework for classification of patients in terms of degree of autonomy, formation of health care-related values, and extent of medical information.

Low Medical Information^*		High Autonomy	Moderate Autonomy	Low Autonomy	No Autonomy
	Very well-formed health care values	Informative		Persons from groups with characteristically low autonomy
	Moderately well-formed health care values		Interpretive
	Few well-formed health care values	Technical specialist, e.g. financial analyst		Deliberative
	No well-formed health care values				Paternalistic, trauma care
Moderate Medical Information		High Autonomy	Moderate Autonomy	Low Autonomy	No Autonomy
	Very well-formed health care values
	Moderately well-formed health care values	Well-informed patient with rare disease
	Few well-formed health care values
	No well-formed health care values
High Level of Medical Information		High Autonomy	Moderate Autonomy	Low Autonomy	No Autonomy
	Very well-formed health care values	Health professional as patient
	Moderately well-formed health care values
	Few well-formed health care values
	No well-formed health care values