Patient Family & Community Engagement

Research Imitates Life: Researching Within Your Lived Experience

This personal narrative article seeks to bring awareness to and provide an overview of...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Primary Care Productivity and Patient Satisfaction Community Practice: What is the Relationship?

Research has shown a consistent positive association between patient and provider experience and improved...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Is Timing Everything?: The Role of Time on the Relationship between Patient-Centered Communication and Provider Empathy

Several studies have indicated that providers that successfully implement patient-centered communication (PCC) practices related...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

The Legitimacy of the Patient Story: The Unofficial Autoethnography

While communication is the foundation of patient experience, survey data and...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

A Patient’s Journey: Navigating Life with Type 1 Diabetes

We are all patients. This article represents my views from my...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

“Not Your Father’s Heart”: How Healthcare Discrimination for Neurodivergent Patients Taught Me About the Human Experience

It is easy to assume all patients who come into a...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

The Use of Patient Stories as a Knowledge Translation Strategy to Facilitate the Sustainability of Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs) in Healthcare

Patient stories are real-life experiences told from a patient’s or their family’s perspective. In...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Lived Experiences of Cancer Patients Who Chose to Stop Receiving Treatment

The study aimed to understand the lived experience of cancer patients...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Helping Patients Navigate the Emergency Department: Assessing the Utility of a Poster Illustrating the Patient Journey

Patients often have limited understanding of the emergency department (ED) care...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Covid-19 Vaccine Perception and Hesitancy Among Uninsured Free Clinic Patients

There are many complexities regarding the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, mainly...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Does Patient Experience Change with Age? Exploring Associations Between Patient Experience, Gender and Age

Patient experience measurement is important for healthcare organizations to support the...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Patient-centered care frameworks, models and approaches: An environmental scan

Although the definition of patient-centered care (PCC) remains unclear, researchers and healthcare professionals describe...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

The journey from provider to patient: Lessons learned

The lens through which one experiences a health crisis is influenced by their personal...

Patient Family & Community Engagement

Listening as medicine: A thematic analysis

Realizations of the importance of “the art of medicine” in trust-building and patient satisfaction...

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