Patient & Consumer Engagement

AcademyHealth is committed to supporting and fostering collaboration between consumers, patients, researchers and delivery systems leaders to improve the relevance and application of health services research. This section contains information on related programs as well as guidance and resources for researchers, patients and consumers.

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Consumer Patient Researcher Roundtable

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Data Sources

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Defining Patient-Centered Metrics for Low Value Care

Phase I: Establishing Priorities

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement

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Building Trust and Mutual Respect to Improve Health Care

AcademyHealth manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Building Trust and Mutual Respect to Improve Health Care program, which awarded eight research studies in 2018 to examine how to build trust and mutual respect to meet vulnerable patients’ health care needs.

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Delivering Better Care Hospitals & Health Systems

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Participant-Driven Research Community (PDRC) Learning Network (LN)

In partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC), AcademyHealth supports this PCORI-funded project to build the capacity and foster the sustainability of patient and/or community-led organizations whose primary purpose is to enable research that is a priority to their communities.

Topics Patient & Consumer Engagement Building Healthy Communities