PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study draws lessons for successful consumer engagement in Medicaid nursing home (NH) reimbursement policy from New York and Minnesota. In these two states, resident advocates have influenced reimbursement policy to better encourage access, care quality, and quality of life. DESIGN AND METHODS Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted, including consumer a...

This commentary talks about patient involvement in one of the biggest EU projects to date-U-BIOPRED. It describes how people and carers of people with asthma have been able to develop and drive their input and have their voice heard among the >200 healthcare professional project members. Five key principles for the success of the patient involvement group are presented: involve early, involve d...

INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

This paper presents a research model to explicate that the level of consumers’ participation on companies’ brand microblogs is influenced by their brand attachment process. That is, self-congruence and partner quality affect consumers’ trust and commitment toward companies’ brands, which in turn influence participation on brand microblogs. Further, we propose that gender has important moderatin...

Consistent with the conceptualizations of participation and involvement in psychology, organizational behavior, consumer behavior, and other disciplines, this paper redefines the participation construct to distinguish its. behavioral and psychological dimensions. "User participation" is defined as the observable behavior of information system users in the information system development process;...

BACKGROUND Greater participation in cardiac rehabilitation improves morbidity and mortality in people with coronary heart disease, but little is understood of patients' decisions to participate. METHODS To develop interventions aimed at increasing completion of programmes, we conducted a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis to explore the complex factors and processes influencing ...

Studies of older people’s social participation have only recently entered the field Russian sociology, although concept, approaches, and empirical indicators are debatable; additionally. significant foreign experience is not represented in domestic scientific space. The purpose article to systematically describe modern approaches analysis, measurement, assessment people. Among analysis particip...

The adoption of a meta-design approach to system development opens up opportunities for transforming consumer cultures to cultures of participation. To this end, meta-design must create the conditions for such participation by supporting end users to appropriate the design skills necessary for system evolution, especially those related to Computational Thinking (CT), in new and engaging modalit...