Summary: Patient Involvement In Health Care

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During the last decade, patient involvement in healthcare has been on the rise. Patients are expected to be involved in health care as health systems have developed influencing CQI (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). Individuals started to question the power healthcare institutions had. Pomey, Hihat, Khalifa, and others (2015) say that patient engagement can be defined as involvement of patients, their families or representatives, in working actively with health professionals at various levels across the health care system to improve health. Patient involvement influences the health care system as a whole. When the patient becomes involved, it allows them to gain some level of control ultimately leading to better health outcomes and lower health …show more content…

Patients can gain a lot of information about their diseases and decide against the doctor’s treatment plan. This affects the patient’s willingness to participate and does play a role in CQI (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). Patients are considered part of the clinical microsystem and integral to work of improvement, their safety concerns will be welcomed and acted upon (Gibson, 2007). Such as, a patient having religious beliefs may not allow them to receive a certain treatment and the doctor may have to adjust their plans per the patient’s requests. In addition, this will benefit the providers because the patient’s satisfaction will have increased if they were involved in their health outcome. Even though active patient involvement seems great, patients should walk on the side of caution as …show more content…

Patients can be partner in many ways. In the work of Pomey et al. (2015), in health care patients-as-partners interact and share the knowledge, acquired by their experience of living with the illness and its impact on their lifestyle, with multidisciplinary teams. This allows for patients to become more willing and open with their experience to improve and work with the health system. Patient involvement will continue to influence the health care system as a whole and in CQI for years to

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