Patients' invitation can be interpreted as a patient's attempt to bring healthcare persons to a closer understanding of patients' suffering. Patients' invitation activity levels with healthcare persons differed based on how their first invitations were attended to or heard. Hearing a patient's invitation is an ethical challenge to practicing healthcare persons because even silent invitations should be heard, and more research is needed concerning healthcare persons in this area. More research is also needed on patients' invitations in different life and health situations; research is equally needed about patients' experiences of healthcare persons' invitations and how healthcare persons' invitations influence patients' dignity.
Portaankorva et al. (Sun,) studied this question.