Effectively engaging patients in their care is essential to improve health outcomes, improve
satisfaction with the care experience, reduce costs, and even benefit the clinician …

Improving health outcomes relies on patients' full engagement in prevention, decision-
making, and self-management activities. Health literacy, or people's ability to obtain …

People's interactions with health care are now widely acknowledged to be a central focus of
health services research. In the past several decades the research community has made …

Objective This article posits four principal objectives related to the overarching goal of
broadening the conceptualization of health literacy. We propose a social ecological …

The recent focus on patient engagement acknowledges that patients have an important role
to play in their own health care. This includes reading, understanding and acting on health …

Research into health literacy and shared decision-making has largely developed along
parallel, but distinct lines over the past two decades. There is little evidence that the …

OBJECTIVE: Advances in health care require that individuals participate knowledgeably and
actively in their health care to realize its full benefit. Implications of these changes for the …

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that patients who are more actively involved in
their health care experience better health outcomes and incur lower costs. As a result, many …

A central plank of health care reform is an expanded role for educated consumers
interacting with responsive health care teams. However, for individuals to realize the …

Patient and family engagement offers a promising pathway toward better-quality health care,
more-efficient care, and improved population health. Since definitions of patient …