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How to integrate a patient partner into a care team?
Nolwenn Tourniaire1,2, Julie Leseur3, Agnès Roy1
1CAPPS Bretagne – Rennes – France
Sante Publique (Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France)
|October 17, 2023
Summary
Integrating a Patient Partner (PP) into healthcare teams improves peer support and care pathways. This research offers a framework and practical questions for successful PP integration in clinical settings.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare delivery models
- Patient engagement strategies
- Health services research
Context:
- Growing patient involvement in healthcare.
- Need for structured integration of Patient Partners (PPs) into professional teams.
- Action-research (AR) conducted in a Cancer Treatment Centre (CTC).
Purpose:
- To provide methodological answers and structuring questions for integrating PPs into health professional teams.
- To guide institutions and health actors interested in PP collaboration.
- To address practical challenges of PP integration.
Summary:
- Action-research in a CTC explored PP-team organization for peer support.
- Key questions addressed: team/PP organization, evaluation methods, role definition, operational procedures, limits, and levers.
- A methodological framework and answers for PP integration were developed.
Impact:
- Proposes an AR-based experimentation model with key drivers and interventions.
- Offers generalizable structuring questions for co-construction and action planning.
- Facilitates PP integration into care teams in various healthcare contexts.
Keywords:
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