Innovations in Measuring and Improving Patient Care Experiences
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2015) | Viewed by 52979
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organizational influences on patient care experiences; interprofessional primary care team approaches and continuity of care; implementation and dissemination research; performance measurement and improvement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Delivery system innovations can have both positive and negative impacts on patients’ experiences of care, depending on how they are implemented. Although many innovations, such as interprofessional care team approaches, can offer patients and health care systems many advantages, including improved patient self-management and health outcomes, they can be poorly implemented, uncoordinated, and distracting to primary care physician-patient relationships. This special issue of Healthcare will focus on clarifying the benefits, limitations, and tradeoffs of implementing delivery system innovations on patient care experiences, including but not limited to: interprofessional care team approaches, patient activation and engagement tools and interventions, shared decision-making with decision aids, group visits, and health coaching by lay health workers. Research aimed at improving the valid and reliable measurement of patient care experiences is also encouraged, as are studies examining the implementation and impact of patient experience performance feedback to individual clinicians, teams, and/or practices.
Prof. Hector P. Rodriguez
Guest Editor
Submission
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Keywords
- patient care experiences
- patient-reported outcome measures
- patient activation and engagement
- shared decision-making
- interprofessional care teams
- patients’ preferences
- primary care practice redesign
- Clinician Group CAHPS Survey
- mixed methods research
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