Table 5.
Ranking of patient engagement on the overall desirability criterion
| Patients' roles | Level of the health‐care system | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local | Regional | ||
| Consultant | 2.37 | 4.02 | 3.20 |
| Implementation advisor | 3.04 | 4.15 | 3.59 |
| Equal stakeholder | 3.58 | 5.15 | 4.36 |
| Lead stakeholder | 6.40 | 6.81 | 6.60 |
| Total | 3.85 | 5.03 | |
Numbers presented in this table are the average ranks across all participants for scenarios, with totals aggregated across role and health‐care system levels. For example, the mean of 2.37 in the local‐consultant cell could be interpreted as an average rank S1 received across all participants. Numbers in the last column are average ranks of a given patient role, whereas numbers in the last row are the average ranks for all patient engagement roles at each level of the health‐care system. The lower the mean value, the higher a given scenario is ranked on the desirability criterion.