Optimizing patient partnership in primary care improvement: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The need to expand and better engage patients in primary care improvement persists.

Purpose

Recognizing a continuum of forms of engagement, this study focused on identifying lessons for optimizing patient partnerships, wherein engagement is characterized by shared decision-making and practice improvement codesign.

Methodology

Twenty-three semistructured interviews with providers and patients involved in improvement efforts in seven U.S. primary care practices in the Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC). The AIC aimed to implement primary care improvement, emphasizing patient engagement in the process. Data were analyzed thematically.

Results

Sites varied in their achievement of patient partnerships, encountering material, technical, and sociocult

SUBMITTER: Alidina S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7919701 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr-Jun 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature