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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nugent, Shannon M.
• Cottrell, Erika
• Knight, Sara J.
• Helfand, Mark

Titel

Health Experiences Research as a Resource and Mechanism for Veteran Engagement in VA Healthcare Research and Care Delivery

Ist Teil von

• Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM, 2022-04, Vol.37 (Suppl 1), p.118-122

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Engaging patients in the research process helps to ensure researchers ask meaningful questions and generate useful evidence to inform healthcare decisions. In 2015, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) service convened a Veteran engagement workgroup, comprised of researchers, clinicians, and Veterans, to identify ways to integrate Veteran engagement into HSR&D. A subgroup was designated to explore the utility of health experiences research (research focused on enhancing understanding of people’s experiences with healthcare and illnesses) as a mechanism to complement and broaden traditional engagement mechanisms. The subgroup recommended the VA adopt the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology for conducting and disseminating health experiences research (HER). In this paper, we describe (1) the key components of the DIPEx approach, (2) how these components complement and broaden current methods of Veteran engagement, (3) an update on VA activities using the DIPEx approach, and (4) a roadmap for future VA HER activities.