Search for dissertations about: "Patient involvement"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 227 swedish dissertations containing the words Patient involvement.
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1. Patient Involvement : A Service Perspective
Abstract : For a long time, patients were seen as weak and passive recipients of care, whose only role was to provide information and comply with doctors’ orders. This is beginning to change, and patients are more seen as autonomous, active, and involved collaborators in care, co-creating value with service providers and others. READ MORE
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2. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare
Abstract : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. READ MORE
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3. Patient involvement in quality improvement
Abstract : Quality improvements (QI,) based on principles, practices, and tools developed in the manufacturing industry, is becoming a common approach in healthcare, as well as an increasing focus on patient involvement. Healthcare QI is driven by challenges such as future patients’ demand for higher quality of care and their desire to have an amplified impact on their health situation and care. READ MORE
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4. Patient Patients? : Achieving Patient Empowerment through active participation, increased knowledge and organisation
Abstract : This study examines patient empowerment in two local diabetes branch organisations in Sweden. In particular, the study focuses on the organisations’ membership, participation and influence on external actors. READ MORE
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5. Patient involvement and service innovation in healthcare
Abstract : This thesis adds to a stream of research suggesting that healthcare can be more patient centered and efficient by redefining the role of the patient from a passive receiver to a more active and collaborative participant. This may relate to healthcare provision (Anderson and Funnell, 2005; Berry and Bendapudi, 2007; Bitner and Brown, 2008; McColl-Kennedy et al. READ MORE