All Articles on Patient Engagement
Outreach is for people on the outsideDr. Greg Simon calls for patient engagement that finds those who are disconnected and discouraged.
Watch our new video, ‘Research for the rest of us’Drs. Neely Williams and David Arterburn talk about how important patient involvement is to the PCORnet Bariatric Study.
High-quality care: The importance of being humanSusan Brandzel reflects on what patients really need from providers. Clinical competence is essential, but so is being engaging, compassionate and real.
A GHRI staffer’s dispatch from the 2015 Stanford Medicine X ConferenceAt a recent Silicon Valley meeting, Susan Brandzel fulfilled a high school prophecy. And she learned and shared about how patients are transforming care.
Shared decision-making collaborators win 2015 Birnbaum AwardGHRI honors eight delivery-system partners for strengthening the patient’s role in treatment choices.
Training physicians to diagnose patient preferencesShared decision making aligns health care decisions with patient goals. Dr. David Arterburn wants to improve the approach through physician training.
- Health care chiefs weigh the impact of patient-powered research
It only makes sense for health researchers to study questions that most matter to patients, right? But too often, research agendas are set by scientists’ academic interests or the potential for profits. And in many cases, research is conducted in experimental settings that don’t reflect patients’ actual experience of health and health care.
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