Fitting in the world: The role structural stigma plays in the lives of persons with obesity
Published August 16, 2021
This paper explores the how individual patients experience structural stigma using a phenomenological qualitative approach.
Related content
-
Policy & Measurement
Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience 2024
Published October 8, 2024

The Beryl Institute’s latest inquiry on consumer perspectives in healthcare is published in a report revealing the most comprehensive and broad collection of voices ever captured for this global study. As a follow-up to earlier studies from 2018 and 2021, the 2024 report confirms that what remains important to people around the world are the
Learn more -
Policy & Measurement
Leveraging patient experience measures as surrogate outcomes to evaluate health care interventions
Published August 2, 2023
Patient experience quality measure scores are widely accepted as outcomes in health services research. For some patients and in some settings, such as hospice care, they can be the most important outcomes. While these measures are widely used, the potential to use them as surrogate outcomes in a clinical trial sense has gone under-recognized. The
Learn more -
Patient Family & Community Engagement | Policy & Measurement | Staff & Provider Engagement
Signals to Action: Northwestern Medicine’s Journey to Humanizing Healthcare Experiences
Published December 19, 2023

Complimentary – In an effort to (re)build trust post-pandemic, many health systems are experiencing the pressure to modernize methods used to engage patients and the workforce who care for them. This trend towards an improvement-focused understanding is reflected in the greater conversations happening across our industry, including the evolved shift in understanding from “Patient” to
Learn more