Table of contents - Special Issue: Patient involvement in Europe – a comparative framework
Patient involvement in Europe – a comparative framework
Mike Dent, Majda PahorThe purpose of this paper is to provide and explain the model that underlies most of the research reported within this special issue on “Patient involvement in health care across…
Patient involvement in quality management: rationale and current status
Oliver Groene, Rosa SunolThe purpose of this paper is to review how patient and public involvement (PPI) can contribute to quality improvement functions and describe the levels of PPI in quality…
Users’ involvement in the Italian NHS: the role of associations and self-help groups
Emmanuele Pavolini, Elena Spina– The purpose of the paper is to show the importance of considering patients’ and citizens’ associations for understanding users’ involvement in health care systems.
User involvement in assisted reproductive technologies: England and Portugal
Catarina Samorinha, Mateusz Lichon, Susana Silva, Mike DentThe purpose of this paper is to compare user involvement in the case of assisted reproductive technologies in England and Portugal through the concepts of voice, choice and…
User involvement in Slovenian healthcare
Matic Kavcic, Majda Pahor, Barbara Domajnko– The purpose of this paper is to report on current developments in user involvement in healthcare in Slovenia and to explore the issue from the macro-, mezzo- and micro-levels.
Patient involvement in Danish health care
Karsten VrangbaekThe purpose of this paper is to investigate different types of patient involvement in Denmark, and to discuss the potential implications of pursuing several strategies for patient…
A comparative study of contemporary user involvement within healthcare systems across England, Poland and Slovenia
Mateusz Lichon, Matic Kavcic, Daniel MastersonThe purpose of this paper is to explore how healthcare-users’ engagement is perceived, how it occurs and how these perceptions differ between three European countries: England…
