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Patient activation and the use of information to support informed health decisions

Judith H. Hibbard
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 100, Iss: 1, pp 5-7
TLDR
The evidence about patient activation and information seeking, health behaviors, and health outcomes is reviewed and strategies can be tailored to support and information for patients at different levels of activation are discussed.
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This article is published in Patient Education and Counseling.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 109 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Clinical decision support system & Health services research.

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OpenNotes After 7 Years: Patient Experiences With Ongoing Access to Their Clinicians' Outpatient Visit Notes.

TL;DR: In this first large-scale survey of patient experiences with a broad range of clinicians working in practices in which shared notes are well established, patients find note reading very important for their health management and share their notes frequently with others.
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Patient Continued Use of Online Health Care Communities: Web Mining of Patient-Doctor Communication.

TL;DR: This study identifies the factors that drive patients to continue their use of online health communities where doctor-patient communication occurs by integrating the information system success model with online health community features and finds that perceived usefulness is found to be significantly determined by three exogenous variables.
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Information needs of adolescent and young adult cancer patients and their parent-carers.

TL;DR: The association between patient activation and information needs suggests that promoting young people’s engagement with healthcare is a key opportunity within AYA care, and indicates the importance of information needs for AYAs and their carers.
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Advance Care Planning in Frail Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

TL;DR: To determine the effectiveness of advance care planning in frail older adults, a large number of patients with a history of depression or substance abuse are considered to be at high risk of needing advance care.
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Development of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM): Conceptualizing and Measuring Activation in Patients and Consumers

TL;DR: The Patient Activation Measure is a valid, highly reliable, unidimensional, probabilistic Guttman-like scale that reflects a developmental model of activation that has good psychometric properties indicating that it can be used at the individual patient level to tailor intervention and assess changes.
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Development and testing of a short form of the patient activation measure.

TL;DR: The results of the analysis indicate that the shortened 13-item version of the Patient Activation Measure is both reliable and valid.
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What The Evidence Shows About Patient Activation: Better Health Outcomes And Care Experiences; Fewer Data On Costs

TL;DR: It is concluded that policies and interventions aimed at strengthening patients' role in managing their health care can contribute to improved outcomes and that patient activation can-and should-be measured as an intermediate outcome of care that is linked toImproved outcomes.
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Is patient activation associated with outcomes of care for adults with chronic conditions

TL;DR: Patients with high PAM scores were significantly more likely to perform self-management behaviors, use self- management services, and report high medication adherence, compared to patients with the lowest PAM score.
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Measuring self-management of patients' and employees' health: Further validation of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) based on its relation to employee characteristics §

TL;DR: PAM can be understood in a broader population health context and need not be restricted to people with chronic illnesses, and the study provides guidance on how to interpret PAM scores.
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