Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Patient involvement has become a part of the political agenda in Danish healthcare. Patients are\nto be involved not only in questions and decisions relating to their own treatment and care – to\ninvolve patients in quality improvement has also become a political expectation of quality work\nin Danish hospitals. During the last 25 years, patient involvement and quality improvement have\nbecome connected in Danish healthcare policy. However, the ideal of involving patients in\nquality improvement is described in very general terms and with only few specific expectations\nof how it is to be carried out in practice, as I show in the thesis. In the patient involvement\nliterature, the difficulties of getting patient involvement in quality improvement to have in an\nimpact on the planning and development of healthcare services is, for example, ascribed to\nconceptual vagueness of patient involvement, differences in perspectives, values and\nunderstandings between patients and healthcare professionals, or the lack of managerial attention\nand prioritization.
Source: Econstor (Econstor)
Author: Mette Brehm Johansen
Institution: Copenhagen Business School
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2950302759