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

ABSTRACT: Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still underexplored. We conducted an overview of review articles on patient engagement interventions in safety to examine the current state of the evidence. Of the 2,795 references we evaluated, 52 articles met our full-text inclusion criteria for synthesis in 2018. We identified robust evidence supporting patients' self-management of anticoagulation medications and mixed-quality evidence supporting patient engagement in medication and chronic disease self-management, adverse event reporting, and medical record accuracy. Promising modes of patient engagement in safety, such as anticoagulation manag

SUBMITTER: Sharma AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060147 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature