Reviewer: Stacey, Dawn

The health care sector shows a disjunction between the well-understood necessity for change and the capacity to realize it. Conventional management strategies and traditional means of influencing professionals often fail to deliver projected outcomes. We address this issue from a different...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of patient participation on patient satisfaction and the subsequent effect on patient behavior outcomes Design/methodology/approach The research employs self-administered survey method to test hypotheses. The convenience sampling...

Purpose – This empirical study aims to explore sufficiency conditions for patient loyalty to a hospital. Design/methodology/approach – The study collected 645 self-administered questionnaires from patients in a major medical center in Taiwan and applied fuzzy set qualitative comparative...

Patients are increasingly encouraged to become active players in self-care and shared decision-making. Such attention has led to an explosion of terms – empowerment, engagement, enablement, participation, involvement, activation – each having multiple and overlapping meanings. The resulting...

A growing emphasis on patient involvement in health care has brought ‘informed choice’ to the core of the debate on provider–patient interaction in global health-care programmes. How the principles of patient involvement and informed choice are implemented and experienced in diverging...

Patient involvement in scientific advisory processes could lead to more societally relevant advice. This article describes a case study wherein the Health Council of the Netherlands involved patient groups in an advisory process with a predefined focus: setting a research agenda for medical...