How healthcare professionals experience patient participation in designing healthcare services and products. A qualitative study in the field of spinal cord injury in Switzerland

Traditionally, healthcare professionals and researchers have acted as a driving force in planning and designing healthcare services and products [1 –4]. Indeed, we observe that while current healthcare research emphasizes the importance of patient-centered care [5], there is limited concern for the patient’s input on how to achieve patient-centeredness [6–9]. This raises important questions as to why patients who are the intended benefici aries of patient-centered care are often not more actively involved in determining what such care should look like.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - March 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Julia Amann, Mirjam Brach, Sara Rubinelli Tags: Original Research Source Type: research