The provision of patient-centered care requires a health care environment that fosters
engagement between patients and their health care team. One way to encourage patient-centered …

Aims: Stakeholder engagement is fundamental to comparative effectiveness research (CER),
but lacks consistent terminology. This paper aims to define stakeholder engagement and …

THE GOAL OF COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (CER) is to provide patients,
their advocates and care-givers, health care professionals, federal officials, policy makers, …

Purpose Supporting the capture and use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) at the point-of-care
enriches information about important clinical and quality of life outcomes. Yet the …

Background Wearable devices, mobile health apps, and geolocation technologies place the
ability to track, monitor and report data in the individuals’ hands–or on their bodies. These …

Importance Use of antibiotics for the treatment of appendicitis is safe and has been found to
be noninferior to appendectomy based on self-reported health status at 30 days. Identifying …

Importance Prognostic understanding can shape patients’ treatment goals and preferences.
Patients undergoing dialysis in the United States have limited life expectancy and may …

Importance Lumbar spine imaging frequently reveals findings that may seem alarming but
are likely unrelated to pain. Prior work has suggested that inserting data on the prevalence of …

Effective delivery of healthcare is highly interdependent within and between interprofessional
(IP) care teams and the patients they serve. This is particularly true for complex health …

Objective The growing prevalence of chronic conditions requiring changes in lifestyle and at-home
self-management has increased interest in and need for supplementing clinic visits …