Challenges to Engaging Women Veterans in Quality Improvement From Patient Care to Policy: Women's Health Managers' Perspectives

Patients are uniquely positioned to identify issues and to provide innovative solutions to problems impacting their care. Yet, patient engagement in quality improvement (QI) and health care governance remains limited and underexplored. In the Veterans Health Administration, the work of women's health managers (WHMs) includes engaging women veterans, a numerical minority with unique health care needs, in QI. We aimed to understand the extent to which WHMs engage women veterans along a continuum, highlight challenges to engagement, and identify potential strategies to facilitate multilevel patient engagement.

Source: Womens Health Issues - September 21, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Tanya T. Olmos-Ochoa, Tana M. Luger, Anneka Oishi, Karen E. Dyer, Annie Sumberg, Ismelda Canelo, Theodore K. Gideonse, Ann Cheney, Elizabeth M. Yano, Alison B. Hamilton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research