What is Patient Engagement, Really?
Ask 10 people and get 20 answers...
What does the term Patient Engagement mean to you? To your work as a medical professional or patient advocate or to your life as a person we want to engage?
I’m asking seriously because on LinkedIn, where #patientengagement is a very popular hashtag, it seems there is little to no agreement on what it means. For some, it’s a method of increasing #customers; for others, a way to raise #patientsatisfaction scores; still others are hoping to teach patients how to advocate for themselves; or empower them; or make #shareddecisionmaking the gold standard. So, please, share your voice and comment below how you define the term. Let’s see if we can come to a consensus.
Keep it simple please. State your job/role and your definition. We can upvote with likes and other emoticons.
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Vlado, Chemical engineer of technology, retired 72 years.
The empowered patient does not exist, especially when the patient or family is the victim of a harmful event. For instance, Champions, who are supposed to be such people who succeed in changing something, are only part of the system that tries to show how the system work on the inclusion of patients in all forms of decision-making. We have examples around the world of how they care for the empowerment of patients, but the patient himself can do nothing if he does not rely on some help. On the one hand, there is the psychosocial aid that is part of the system to distract you from seeking justice or seeking justice in court and prepare you to a state where you reconcile, and on the other hand, there are lawyers who encourage you to fight for your rights. In both cases you lose, on the one hand you lose yourself and put yourself in the hands of people who do not recognize Darwin (most of them) and on the other hand you play an expensive lottery where you do not realize that you always lose. Empowered patients are a delusion.