PUBLIC AND PATIENT ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE

As patient, family and caregiver engagement becomes more firmly embedded in health systems, our interest in understanding how well we are doing has led to more emphasis on evaluation. We have a good handle on how to evaluate the the basics of patient, family and caregiver engagement process, but our understanding of the outputs, outcomes and impacts of PE initiatives in policy making, organizational design and health system governance is much less developed... Important note: When we discuss the evaluation of patient engagement, we are not suggesting that we need to evaluate the individual patient partners who are engaged in this work. Rather, we aim to evaluate the overall impact of the engagement process - including how the interactions between patient partners and others led to changes in the process, what was different due to these interactions - and how the outcome of the process led to changes within the health system... The Toolkit has been developed for a wide range of users...

Primary location: Hamilton