Fig. 1From: Polypharmacy and sustainable developmental goals: linking evidence-based medicine, patient engagement, and shared decision-makingIntegrating patients’ values into five steps of EBM. Identifying patients’ problems and healthcare goals, and formulating clinical questions are the first key step of EBM. A patient and healthcare providers collaborate to identify the problem and to formulate questions. Applying the evidence is the fourth step of EBM, and again a patient and healthcare providers deliberate whether the guideline recommendations or the scientific evidence can be applied in the biomedical context and they match the patient’s values and preferencesBack to article page