Patient engagement in hospital health service planning and improvement: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patient engagement (PE) improves patient, organisation and health system outcomes, but most research is based on primary care. The primary purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of published empirical research that evaluated PE in hospital health service improvement.

Design

Scoping review.

Methods

Five databases were searched from 2006 to September 2016. English language studies that evaluated patient or provider beliefs, participation in PE, influencing factors or impact were eligible. Screening and data extraction were done in triplicate. PE characteristics, influencing factors and impact were extracted and summarised.

Results

From a total of 3939 search results, 227 studies emerged as potentially relevant; of these, 217 were not

SUBMITTER: Liang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829665 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature