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Meaningful Partnerships: Stages of Development of a Patient and Family Advisory Council at a Family Medicine Residency Clinic

BACKGROUND: Partnering with patients and families is a crucial step in optimizing health. A patient and family advisory council (PFAC) is a group of patients and family members working together collaboratively with providers and staff to improve health care. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe t...

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Autores principales: Schlaudecker, Jeffrey D, Goodnow, Keesha, Goroncy, Anna, Hartmann, Reid, Regan, Saundra, Rich, Megan, Butler, Adam, White, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33055073
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12105
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author Schlaudecker, Jeffrey D
Goodnow, Keesha
Goroncy, Anna
Hartmann, Reid
Regan, Saundra
Rich, Megan
Butler, Adam
White, Christopher
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description BACKGROUND: Partnering with patients and families is a crucial step in optimizing health. A patient and family advisory council (PFAC) is a group of patients and family members working together collaboratively with providers and staff to improve health care. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the creation of a PFAC within a family medicine residency clinic. To understand the successful development of a PFAC, challenges, potential barriers, and positive outcomes of a meaningful partnership will be reported. METHODS: The stages of PFAC development include leadership team formation and initial training, PFAC member recruitment, and meeting launch. Following a description of each stage, outcomes are outlined and lessons learned are discussed. PFAC members completed an open-ended survey and participated in a focus group interview at the completion of the first year. Interviewees provided feedback regarding (1) favorite aspects or experiences, (2) PFAC impact on a family medicine clinic, and (3) future projects to improve care. Common themes will be presented. RESULTS: The composition of the PFAC consisted of 18 advisors, including 8 patient and family advisors, 4 staff advisors, 4 resident physician advisors, and 2 faculty physician advisors. The average meeting attendance was 12 members over 11 meetings in the span of the first year. A total of 13 out of 13 (100%) surveyed participants were satisfied with their experience serving on the PFAC. CONCLUSIONS: PFACs provide a platform for patient engagement and an opportunity to drive home key concepts around collaboration within a residency training program. A framework for the creation of a PFAC, along with lessons learned, can be utilized to advise other residency programs in developing and evaluating meaningful PFACs.
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spelling pubmed-74340792020-09-30 Meaningful Partnerships: Stages of Development of a Patient and Family Advisory Council at a Family Medicine Residency Clinic Schlaudecker, Jeffrey D Goodnow, Keesha Goroncy, Anna Hartmann, Reid Regan, Saundra Rich, Megan Butler, Adam White, Christopher J Particip Med Original Paper BACKGROUND: Partnering with patients and families is a crucial step in optimizing health. A patient and family advisory council (PFAC) is a group of patients and family members working together collaboratively with providers and staff to improve health care. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the creation of a PFAC within a family medicine residency clinic. To understand the successful development of a PFAC, challenges, potential barriers, and positive outcomes of a meaningful partnership will be reported. METHODS: The stages of PFAC development include leadership team formation and initial training, PFAC member recruitment, and meeting launch. Following a description of each stage, outcomes are outlined and lessons learned are discussed. PFAC members completed an open-ended survey and participated in a focus group interview at the completion of the first year. Interviewees provided feedback regarding (1) favorite aspects or experiences, (2) PFAC impact on a family medicine clinic, and (3) future projects to improve care. Common themes will be presented. RESULTS: The composition of the PFAC consisted of 18 advisors, including 8 patient and family advisors, 4 staff advisors, 4 resident physician advisors, and 2 faculty physician advisors. The average meeting attendance was 12 members over 11 meetings in the span of the first year. A total of 13 out of 13 (100%) surveyed participants were satisfied with their experience serving on the PFAC. CONCLUSIONS: PFACs provide a platform for patient engagement and an opportunity to drive home key concepts around collaboration within a residency training program. A framework for the creation of a PFAC, along with lessons learned, can be utilized to advise other residency programs in developing and evaluating meaningful PFACs. JMIR Publications 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7434079/ /pubmed/33055073 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12105 Text en ©Jeffrey D Schlaudecker, Keesha Goodnow, Anna Goroncy, Reid Hartmann, Saundra Regan, Megan Rich, Adam Butler, Christopher White. Originally published in Journal of Participatory Medicine (http://jopm.jmir.org), 20.03.2019. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in Journal of Participatory Medicine, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://jopm.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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White, Christopher
Meaningful Partnerships: Stages of Development of a Patient and Family Advisory Council at a Family Medicine Residency Clinic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33055073
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12105
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