Abstract Partnership in care and patient engagement is an expanding approach and tremendously promising for improving the quality of healthcare services. However, the approach could be subject to many issues and challenges of various kinds. In this paper, we develop a reflection of the challenges and issues that the approach of patient engagement and partnership […] Read more

Abstract Context The Ministry of Health in Québec requested the National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services to produce clinical and implementation recommendations for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease. Objectives (i) Describe the process of trialing different modalities of patient engagement as a means to integrate a diversity of patient […] Read more

Abstract Background The establishment of a common pragmatic terminology represents the first step in structuring patient engagement initiatives in healthcare facilities. However, none is currently available in French. As part of the deployment of patient engagement within a French University Hospital Center, we propose a terminology of patient engagement.   Methods We conducted a scoping […] Read more

Abstract Context: The National Institute of Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS),which functions as the Québec health technology assessment (HTA) agency, tested a new way to engage patients along with health‐care professionals in the co‐construc-tion of recommendations regarding implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator replacement. Objective: The objective of this article was to describe the process of co‐construc-tion […] Read more

This content is not available in the selected language. Introduction En 2014, la Fondation canadienne pour l’amélioration des services de santé a lancé un appel de candidature pour nancer des projets d’amélioration continue de la qualité qui impliquent des patients (FCASS, 2016). C’est ainsi que le Centre de santé et de services sociaux de l’Énergie […] Read more