Patient Engagement In Health Care Safety: An Overview Of Mixed-Quality Evidence

• DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0716
• Publication Date: 2018-11-05T20:56:20Z
• Authors: Anjana E. Sharma; Natalie A. Rivade...; Jill Barr-Walker; Rachel J. Stern; Amanda K. Johnson; Urmimala Sarkar
• Keywords: Patient portal; Disease management; Patient Participation

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety the hospital, ambulatory setting, community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement are still underexplored. We conducted an overview of review articles on examine current state evidence. Of 2,795 references we evaluated, 52 met our full-text inclusion criteria for synthesis 2018. identified robust evidence supporting patients’ self-management anticoagulation medications mixed-quality medication chronic disease self-management, adverse event reporting, medical record accuracy. Promising modes safety, such as management portal access, not widely implemented. discuss major implementation priorities propose directions future research policy enhance partnership within efforts.