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Patients are increasingly recognised as the true customers of healthcare. By providing insights and perspectives, patients can help the wider healthcare community better understand their needs and ultimately enhance the value of healthcare solutions being developed. In the development of new medicines, for example, meaningful patient engagement can enable the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare...

Patient and family advisory councils (PFACs) advance patient- family-centered care within children’s hospitals but may not reflect the diversity of communities they serve. We sought to assess PFAC among explore barriers, drivers, enablers recruitment, retention, engagement patient advisors (PFAs) with diverse perspectives backgrounds. performed a mixed methods study evaluate structure, composit...

The Patient Health Engagement Scale (PHE-s) was designed to assess the emotional and psychological attitudes of patients' engagement along their healthcare management journey. The aim of this study was to validate a culturally adapted Chinese version of the PHE-s (CPHE-s). Three hundred and seventy-seven participants were recruited from eight community health centers in a sample of patients wit...

OBJECTIVE This study is a preliminary exploration of the association between patient involvement in decision-making and patient socioeconomic characteristics and experience in specialist outpatient clinics (SOPCs) in Hong Kong. METHODS Cross-sectional telephone interviews were conducted using the Specialist Outpatient Experience Questionnaire (SOPEQ) in 26 Hospital Authority public SOPCs in H...

programs holds promise as a means to improve access and use of family planning in South Asia. A growing number of programmatic examples and research findings in the region, as well as global evidence, demonstrate the benefits of male engagement. Evidence also shows that addressing gender in family planning programs — for instance by engaging men — can improve program outcomes and increase gende...

Background: Patient-engagement strategies are increasingly recognized for enriching traditional medical care and improving population health. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be well positioned to leverage multi-sector organizational partnerships to improve the reach of their patient-engagement strategies, particularly given incentives to meet cost, quality and population health goals....