ArticleJournal of patient experience2025
Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study.
Article in Journal of patient experience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Promoting Patient Safety Through Patient Engagement at the Organisational Level: A Delphi-Based Needs Assessment Among Patient and Family Advisory Councils.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Trial
- Building meaningful partnerships: engaging and co-developing a patient advisory council to inform the implementation of person-centred quality indicators in Alberta primary care.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
- Equipping Health Systems to Meet Older Adults' Care Needs: A Novel Age-Friendly Patient and Family Advisory Council.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Quantitative Study on How Councils are Used and Predictors of Effective Councils.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
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- Designing Patient-Friendly Messages: Tutorial on Applying Human-Centered, Self-Determination Theory With AI Considerations.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council Accelerators and Barriers: A Qualitative Study.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
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Abstract
With the aim of fostering patient-centered care, Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) have emerged as a way for hospitals to garner input for initiatives and programs from patients and patients' families who have used the hospitals' services. Despite their inception in the early 1980s, only 54% of United States hospitals field a PFAC. This scoping study entailed searching 6 databases in July 2024 and reviewing 143 articles about hospital PFACs from around the world to understand how hospitals use PFACs, measure the results, and acknowledge the success factors. Patient and Family Advisory Council engagement ranged from stamping approval for a project to providing feedback or codesigning the project from the inception, with feedback as the most popular. Of the articles about specific PFACs, 70% either dealt with a condition, such as cancer, the type of person, such as youth, or both. The literature review revealed that few articles cited PFAC project metrics and outcomes, although some articles mentioned PFAC success factors, the most prevalent of which was the training of patients and staff, as well as leadership.
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