Increasing Patient Tracking Compliance by Harnessing Frontline Clinician Engagement

Compliance, engagement and commitment: Increasing employer expenditure in training

Clinician Engagement for Continuous Learning

Richard Platt, MD, MS, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School; Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH, American Medical Association; Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH, University of Massachusetts Medical School; J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, VA Boston Healthcare System/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Robert Harrington, MD, Stanford University; Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHS...

Increasing Patient and Family Engagement in Health Care

In 2008, the National Quality Forum declared patient and family engagement to be one of six national priorities to eradicate disparities, reduce harm, and remove waste from the health care system in the U.S. In a previous editorial in the February 2009 issue of P&T, I discussed these goals and how truly progressive they were in helping the health care system cross the “quality chasm.”1 I recent...

Increasing patient engagement: patients' responses to viewing problem lists online.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the opinions, emotions, and actions taken by patients who viewed their electronic problem list via an online personal health record (PHR). MATERIALS AND METHODS An online survey of patients who viewed their problem lists, as maintained by their healthcare provider, in a web-based PHR linked to an electronic health record for the first time. RESULTS A total 3,649 pa...

Clinician engagement is critical to public engagement with clinical trials.

Five years on from Godlee and Chalmers’ advocacy of greater patient information to improve access to clinical trials,we have conducted research showing that engaging clinicians with local research and trial information is as critical to enabling participation as are public engagement and information provision. Our study explored the perceptions, motivations, and barriers to trial participation ...