Clarifying the degrees, modes, and muddles of 'meaningful' patient engagement in health services planning and designing

摘要

Objectives: Patient engagement has become the expectation around the world in an array of healthcare activities. There is an emerging need to improve the mechanisms and approaches to engaging patients. Previous research has found variation in the terms used to describe PE, which may inhibit the usefulness and impact of tools developed to improve PE. The objective of this review was to investigate how studies have conceptualized and differentiated between degrees of engagement in planning and designing of health services.