Featured Review: Patient-mediated interventions to improve professional practice

 Our annual meeting, theCochrane Colloquium, had patient involvement as central theme for 2018. We took the chance to meet two of theCochrane Eddective Practice and Organizsation of Care authors of the newly published review, ‘Patient‐mediated interventions to improve professional practice ’, to get their reflections on patient involvement in clinical practice as it linked so well with the theme of the Cochrane Colloquium.Healthcare professionals are important contributors to healthcare quality and patient safety, but their performance does not always follow recommended clinical practice. There are many approaches to influencing practice among healthcare professionals. In this review, authors assessed the effectiveness of patient‐mediated interventions on healthcare professionals ' performance. Examples of patient ‐mediated interventions include 1) patient‐reported health information, 2) patient information, 3) patient education, 4) patient feedback about clinical practice, 5) patient decision aids, 6) patients, or patient representatives, being members of a committee or board, and 7) patient‐led traini ng or education of healthcare professionals25 studies with a total of 12,268 patients were included in this Cochrane Review.The review   found:Patients can improve the performance of healthcare professionals through a broad range of approaches. Strategies where patients give healthcare professionals information about themselves and patient education are promisi...

Source: Cochrane News and Events - October 1, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news