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F ollowing on the theme from my previous editorial (Mayer, 2014), I want to address another goal identified in Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (Institute of Medicine, 2013): engaged patients. The report identified patient engagement as the number one recommendation. The recommendation states that patients and their families should be given under...

Author Contributions:Dr Badri had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Sardar, Badri, Seltzer, Kowey. Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Sardar, Badri, Prince. Drafting of the manuscript: Sardar, Badri. Critical revision of the manuscript for important in...

n engl j med 377;16 nejm.org October 19, 2017 treatment and overestimate its likelihood for success, paving the way for later regret if the outcome is poor. Patients who choose elective procedures while in a hot state and end up with a bad outcome may be at particular risk for regret due to commission bias. Some researchers believe that the relationship of regret to either action or inertia mus...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines provide an evidence-based approach to managing single chronic conditions, but their applicability to multiple conditions has been actively debated. Incorporating patient-preference recommendations and involving consumers in guideline development may enhance their applicability, but further understanding is needed. OBJECTIVES To assess guidelines that in...

THE GOAL OF COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (CER) is to provide patients, their advocates and caregivers, health care professionals, federal officials, policy makers, and payers with evidence-based information to make informed health care decisions. Previously, CER studies were designed by researchers and had relatively little input from patients. Patient engagement has rapidly gained accept...

T he 7th International Conference on Patientand Family-Centered Care was held July 25-27, 2016, in New York City. Attended by over 1,000 individuals representing some 348 institutions and organizations from across the United States and around the world, the conference included 120 presentations and 89 posters on topics of patientand family-centered care. A listing of all conference presentation...