All Articles on Engagement

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  Training physicians to diagnose patient preferences

  Shared 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.
• What characteristics make up effective patient engagement?

  While many health care providers and health care organizations stress the importance of patient engagement, they have a long way to go to achieve effective patient communication. Paula Lozano, MD, senior investigator with GHRI, discussed the role readiness and other factors play in a patient’s decision to make a change in their health and well-being.
• The patient's role in surgery choices: More engagement, better care

  By providing care in a way that is more patient centered, Group Health is also demonstrating one way the nation might address an epidemic of overtreatment and medical harm—and its related suffering.
• What do patients really want? PCORI-funded research raises the bar

  Here at GHRI—and other similar research organizations across the U.S.—scientists are busy preparing proposals for PCORI, a federally funded nonprofit organization that the Affordable Care Act established to focus on comparative effectiveness research.