Who represents me? A patient‐derived model of patient engagement via patient and family advisory councils (PFACs)

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ID19508353
AutoresVadim Dukhanin (0000-0002-8685-0027, Department of Health Policy and Management Center for Health Services & Outcomes Research Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore MD USA), Scott Feeser (Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients, LLC (JMAP) Baltimore MD USA), Scott A Berkowitz (Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients, LLC (JMAP) Baltimore MD USA), Matthew Decamp (0000-0002-9371-8729, Division of General Internal Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore MD USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas148-158
Data de publicação2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHealth Expectations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-6513 • E-ISSN: 1369-7625
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/hex.12983
PMID31646728
OpenAlexW2982162736
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

BACKGROUND: Despite increasing attention to patient and family advisory councils (PFACs), what patients who are not PFAC members expect of PFACs remains understudied. Understanding their expectations is critical if PFACs are to help health systems achieve certain outcomes (eg increased patient satisfaction with health systems). OBJECTIVE: To obtain rich insights about what patients who are not PFAC members expect of PFACs. DESIGN: From July to September 2018, we conducted a qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We recruited patients and caregivers who receive their care from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients (JMAP), LLC, a Medicare accountable care organization that in 2014 established a PFAC, the Beneficiary Advisory Council. APPROACH: Using grounded theory, we analysed field notes, analytic memos and transcripts to develop a theoretical model of patient engagement via PFACs. RESULTS: Forty-two patients and caregivers participated in five focus groups that included individuals of different ages, races, health statuses and socio-economic statuses. Participants were largely unaware of PFACs. Participants wanted to know who represented them (interpreted as a form of political representation) and emphasized the need for representatives' diversity. Who mattered because who could affect what PFACs do. Participants expected that all patients should be able to communicate with PFACs and that meaningful engagement could enhance perceptions of health systems. CONCLUSIONS: Eliciting views about patient representation from patients who have not been engaged as advisors or representatives has the potential to inform PFACs' activities. Attention should be given to improving and measuring patients' awareness of, and interactions with, their patient representatives

Alliance · Beneficiary · Family medicine · Focus group · Grounded theory · Health care · Patient participation · Patient satisfaction · Perception · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Nursing · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare · Psychology