Background Patient and family engagement (PFE) has been defined as a partnership
between patients, families, and health care providers to achieve positive health care …

• Although there is ample evidence that Canadians suffer preventable harm owing to unsafe
care, 52, 53 useful international comparisons focusing on the safety of health care are rare.• …

Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to
improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional …

Objective To assess the proportion of academic family physicians using e-mail with patients
and to explore related attitudes, barriers, and facilitators. Design A 47-item questionnaire …

I'm going to use the term “patient engagement” because it's more familiar to me as a
Canadian than the term “public and patient involvement”, or PPI, which is used here in the …

Background Primary care practices have started to explore different methods of engaging
with patients to advance quality improvement. This approach leverages the strengths of …

Deliberative forums, such as citizens' assemblies or reference panels, are one
institutionalization of deliberative democracy that has become increasingly commonplace in …

Deliberative forums, such as citizens' assemblies or reference panels, are one
institutionalization of deliberative democracy that has become increasingly commonplace in …

Four essays enlighten life transitions: Egnew envisions that by helping patients to construct
their illness stories, healers can help people dealing with chronic and terminal illness to …

This issue contains 6 studies based on a fol-low-up of cohorts of patients, 1-6 3 studies from
networks of practices, 4, 5, 7 and 4 studies from national population samples. 1, 2, 8 There is …