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  • Academic / research papers

What happens when patients know more than their doctors? Experiences of health interactions after diabetes patient education: a qualitative patient-led study

This research project found that people graduating from intensive patient education courses such as DAFNE emerge with disease-specific biomedical, experiential and practical knowledge that exceeds that of many healthcare professionals and that tensions can arise when generalist and even specialist doctors and nurses are not comfortable with patients who have a high level of expertise.

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Patchy 'coherence': using normalization process theory to evaluate a multi-faceted shared decision making implementation program (MAGIC)

This paper reports on the findings of two rounds of semi-structured interviews with health professionals taking part in the Health Foundation's MAGIC programme to put shared decision making into practice.  It sets out the work required to implement shared decision making and to inform future efforts.

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Behind closed doors

As part of our Co-Creating Health programme, we want to change the relationship between clinicians and patients, allowing patients to play a more active role in their care. To make this change, we need to consider what happens in the private space of the consultation room, behind closed doors.

 

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Does your practice “give patients a fish” or “teach patients to fish”? Health Coaching for Patients

This article argues that, to improve patient participation in decision-making, adherence to treatment regimes and lifestyle changes primary care must take on a new task: working with patients to ensure that they understand, agree with and participate in the management of their chronic conditions. 

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Using Action Plans to Help Primary Care Patients Adopt Healthy Behaviors: A Descriptive Study

This article reports research finding that most patients reported making a behaviour change based on an action plan, suggesting that action plans may be a useful strategy to encourage behavior change for patients seen in primary care.

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