Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report

AHRQ Report Examines Patient and Family Engagement Activities

A new AHRQ report, Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Final Environmental Scan Report, assesses the current literature, tools, and resources being used to engage patients and their families. The report provides:

• A framework that describes how patient and family engagement can lead to improved quality and safety
• A description of factors that influence patient and family engagement, including characteristics and perspectives of patients, families, health care professionals, and hospital organizational and cultural factors
•  Hospital-based methods and materials currently being used to engage patients and families in the safety and quality of care
• An analysis of the kinds of materials that are needed, but do not exist 

AHRQ is using this report as the first step toward developing a patient/family engagement guide that is now being tested at three hospitals and is expected to be available in mid-2013. Select to access the environmental scan report.

Guide to Patient and Family Engagement

Environmental Scan Report Contract Final Report This report was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) under contract HHSA 290-200-600019. It presents the results of an environmental scan conducted by AIR to serve as an evidence-based foundation for the development of the Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Enhancing the Quality and Safety of Hospital Care. Select to download print version (PDF File, 950 KB). Plugin Software Help. Prepared by: American Institutes for Research Maureen Maurer, MPH Pam Dardess, MPH Kristin L. Carman, PhD Karen Frazier, MA Lauren Smeeding Contents Executive Summary Introduction Methods    Internal Team Input    Key Informant Interviews    Search Methodology    Data Abstraction and Analysis Findings    Individual Characteristics of Target Audiences    Organizational Context    Strategies and Interventions    Dissemination    Recommendations from Key Informant Interviews Summary and Discussion    Knowledge Gained from the Process    Gaps Identified    Limitations of the Scan Implications for the Guide Next Steps References Appendixes Appendix A: Draft Key Informant Interview Protocol Appendix B: Summary of Search Terms Appendix C: List of Web Sites Reviewed Appendix D: Data Abstraction Protocol This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without further permission. A complete list of tools reviewed for this report is available from Pam Dardess, MPH, Senior Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research, Health Program,100 Europa Drive, Suite 315, Chapel Hill, NC 27517; Phone: (919) 918-2311; Fax: (919) 960-6983. The opinions presented in this report are those of the authors, who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. None of the authors have any affiliations or financial involvements that conflict with material presented in this report. AHRQ Publication No. 12-0042-EF Current as of May 2012 Internet Citation: Maurer M, Dardess P, Carman KL, et al. Guide to Patient and Family Engagement: Environmental Scan Report. (Prepared by the American Institutes for Research under contract HHSA 290-200-600019). AHRQ Publication No. 12-0042-EF, May 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/ptfamilyscan/index.html