Introduction: Emerging policy consensus advocates that patient-centered care should
include an active, practice-level patient role, but it is unknown how commonly these roles …

PURPOSE Patient engagement has been broadly defined as the process of actively
involving and supporting patients in health care and treatment decision making. The aim of …

Background Patient-centered care reflecting patient preferences and needs is integral to
high-quality care. Individualized care is important for psychosocially complex or high-risk …

There is renewed interest in patient engagement in clinical and research settings, creating a
need for documenting and publishing lessons learned from efforts to meaningfully engage …

Patient engagement in primary care leadership is an important means to involve community
voices at community health centers. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are …

Background: Patient engagement strategies can equip patients with tools to navigate
treatment decisions and improve patient-centered outcomes. Despite increased recognition …

Background: While patient engagement can be beneficial for patient care, there are barriers
to engaging patients. These barriers exist for health care organizations, for health care …

• Objective: To explore how community health centers engage patients in practice
improvement and factors associated with patient involvement on clinic-level strategies …

Directly involving patients and families in care improvement increasingly is viewed as an
important component of patient-centered care. To assess the extent to which practices …

Objective To identify potential orderings of primary care practice adoption of patient
engagement strategies overall and separately for interpersonally and technologically …