Identifying And Valuing Patient Group Engagement Methods

Valuing Agroforestry Systems Methods and Applications

Agroforestry, the purposeful growing of trees and crops in interacting combinations, began to attain prominence in the late 1970s. when the international scientific community embraced its potentials in the tropics and recognized it as a practice in search of science. During the 1990s the relevance of agroforestry for solving problems related to deterioration of family farms, increased soil eros...

Evaluation of rapid methods of identifying group B streptococci.

Rapid methods of identifying Lancefield group B streptococci were compared to the standard Fuller's extraction method. Such tests as sodium hippurate hydrolysis, bile tolerance, aesculin hydrolysis, pyruvate fermentation, Camp factor, pigmentation, and bacitracin haemolysis were tested on both routine clinical specimens and National Collection of Type Culture strains. The results show that pigm...

Leadership for patient engagement

Tailoring patient information to encourage patient engagement

This paper proposes a new method for tailoring health information based on an individual’s dominant attitudes and information processing style which can be digitally operationalized and delivered direct to the patient. This individualized approach is based on principles previously used as the basis for mass-marketing campaigns, including smoking and other public health issues but not previously...

Measuring patient engagement: development and psychometric properties of the Patient Health Engagement (PHE) Scale

Beyond the rhetorical call for increasing patients' engagement, policy makers recognize the urgency to have an evidence-based measure of patients' engagement and capture its effect when planning and implementing initiatives aimed at sustaining the engagement of consumers in their health. In this paper, authors describe the Patient Health Engagement Scale (PHE-scale), a measure of patient engage...