What matters most to patients about primary healthcare: mixed-methods patient priority setting exercises within the PREFeR (PRioritiEs For Research) project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify patient-generated priority topics for future primary care research in British Columbia (BC), Canada within a diverse patient population.

Design

Mixed-methods priority setting exercises framed by the dialogue model, using the nominal group technique (rank-ordered scoring) and province-wide online surveys capturing importance ratings of the top 10 primary healthcare topics from patients and primary care providers.

Setting

BC, Canada.

Participants

Topic identification was completed by 10 patient partners (7 female, 3 male) from the BC Primary Health Care Research Network Patient Advisory; online surveys were completed by 464 patients and 173 primary care providers.

Results

The 10 members recruited to the patient advisory provided over

SUBMITTER: Edwards L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6624027 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature