Helping Patients Help Themselves: Supporting the Healthcare Journey

Patients often feel lost when navigating the health care system, and poor care coordination leads to negative patient outcomes, consumes resources and makes diseases more difficult to treat. Patients and citizens have become eager to take health care decision making into their own hands. To this end, solutions have been proposed which assist patients by providing them with more information and enabling them to take a more active role in their care. These include enlisting a patient navigator, consumer engagement, process mapping, decision aids, and clinical pathways.
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Discussion Source Type: research