Results 251 to 260 of about 237,279 (294)

Patient Empowerment in Clinical Genetics Services

Journal of Health Psychology, 2008
Outcome measurement in clinical genetics is problematic because the patient benefits are difficult to measure. The aim in this qualitative grounded theory study was to develop a theoretical framework describing the patient benefits from using clinical genetics services.
Mcallister, Marion, Payne, Katherine, Macleod, Rhona, Nicholls, Stuart, Dian Donnai, [Unknown], Davies, Linda   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Patient preference elicitation empowerment

Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care, 2010
The elicitation of patient preferences has become very prominent in healthcare, along with the increasing degree of participation by patients in their own treatment decision making. Although some conventional patient preference elicitation techniques exist, their outcomes are error prone and unreliable.
Mandana Omidbakhsh, Thiruvengadam Radhakrishnan, Sudhir P. Mudur   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Transforming healthcare through patient empowerment

Information Knowledge Systems Management, 2009
The United States faces tremendous challenges with its healthcare system. By any standard, it is expensive and performs poorly in most measures of health and thus, is in great need of reform. But how do we reform things without making the situation worse?
openaire   +2 more sources

Patient Empowerment and Analytics

2020
The healthcare system is focusing more on patient empowerment leading to patients with active health management. In this process, although some mechanisms exist, there is a need for patient empowerment to move to a new realm where the empowerment process is activated remotely from the patient's side.
Sumate Permwonguswa, Dobin Yim
openaire   +1 more source

Patient engagement, patient empowerment and patient safety

British Journal of Nursing
John Tingle, Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, discusses several recent reports on the role of patients in patient safety policy
openaire   +2 more sources

[Patient empowerment].

Ugeskrift for laeger, 2016
It is the explicit, political ambition of the Region of the capital in Denmark to apply the principle of patient empowerment on all levels of the health-care system. However, precise operationalized criteria for the application of patient empowerment are still not well-defined.
openaire   +1 more source

A memorable patient: Patient empowerment

BMJ, 2001
He was 62 years old, a teacher by profession, and had recently had hypertension diagnosed. Metoprolol had been started two weeks ago and his next appointment was not for another two months, but this morning he had insisted on being seen. He sat demurely opposite me and, just as I finished reviewing his case history, looked straight at me and said ...
openaire   +1 more source

Contextualizing Patient Empowerment

2017
This chapter provides a contextualization of patient empowerment, emphasizing its importance in shaping the healthcare service system of the future. A relational interpretation of patient empowerment is embraced. Patient empowerment initiatives are claimed to rely on the establishment of a co-creating partnership between the patients and the healthcare
openaire   +1 more source

Patient empowerment in diabetes

Practice Nursing, 2008
As the prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to rise, practice nurses will find themselves with greater roles and responsibilities when helping the patient to empower their treatment. Brenda Capaldi explains
openaire   +1 more source

„Patient Empowerment“

Krankenhaushygiene up2date, 2013
Christiane Reichardt, Petra Gastmeier
openaire   +1 more source