Table 2.
Domains and types of PRI actions cited
| Domains and types of PRI actions | Numbers of PRI actions (percentages) | Numbers of HCWs who involved patients in an action in the domain (percentages of HCWs who reported at least one PRI action in at least one of the four domains (n = 133)) |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare quality and safety improvement | 158 (37%)a | 72 (54%) |
| Organisation and design of care trajectories, integrated care development in inpatient and outpatient settings | 64 (41%)b | |
| Patient information or mediation processes between patients and medical teams or hospital administration | 40 (25%)b | |
| Care unit organisation, improvement of hospital service delivery | 31 (20%)b | |
| Patient safety (medication safety, analysis of serious adverse events, control of care-related infections, etc) | 16 (10%)b | |
| Unspecified | 7 (4%)b | |
| Healthcare provision and support for other patients | 122 (29%)a | 80 (60%) |
| Development of therapeutic patient education programmes | 47 (39%)b | |
| Psychological support for other patients (individual or collective peer support) | 40 (33%)b | |
| Entertainment activities for patients in care units | 16 (13%)b | |
| Peer support and guidance in patients’ daily lives | 16 (13%)b | |
| Unspecified | 3 (2%)b | |
| Initial and continuing health professional education and patient training | 85 (20%)a | 48 (36%) |
| Continuing education | 37 (44%)b | |
| Medical professions | 16 | |
| Paramedical professions | 18 | |
| Unspecified | 3 | |
| Initial student education | 27 (32%)b | |
| Medical studies | 12 | |
| Midwifery studies | 5 | |
| Nursing studies | 5 | |
| Dentistry studies | 2 | |
| Pharmacy studies | 2 | |
| Physiotherapy studies | 1 | |
| Patient training courses | 18 (21%)b | |
| Unspecified | 3 (3%)b | |
| Health research | 59 (14%)a | 42 (32%) |
| Communication on research projects | 25 (42%)b | |
| Identification of research priorities | 11 (19%)b | |
| Data collection | 8 (14%)b | |
| Design of data collection methods and tools | 7 (12%)b | |
| Design of research protocols (research questions, study design, outcomes, etc) | 5 (8%)b | |
| Unspecified | 3 (5%)b |
a% of the total number of cited PRI actions (n = 424)
b% of the total number of PRI actions cited in each domain
HCW Healthcare Worker
PRI Involvement of Patients and their Representatives