Tag Archives: patient advisors

Patient Voice

A practical guide to engaging the public in programs and policy development

Writing about patient engagement for a broad audience, I carefully consider how to refer to people involved in this work who are not health care professionals. Patients, family members, informal caregivers, consumers, citizens, activists and more play important roles in healthcare, and it can be challenging to hit the right note when referring to them […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Patient Experience

Patient and Family Advisors Perform Rounds at BIDMC

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts, has a long history of personalized patient care and community service, which now includes a program of inpatient rounding performed by patient and family advisors. Leaders of BIDMC’s Patient and Family Engagement team described the rounding program in a presentation to the Massachusetts Coalition for the […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

Check out my: Twitter