by Dave deBronkart | Apr 7, 2017 |
We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 12, 2017 |
On Thursday, at 5pm UK time / noon ET / 9 am Pacific, the BMJ will host a tweetchat under their #BMJDebate hashtag, adding to the ongoing debate about how and when patients can be compensated for their contributions to improving healthcare. Please read editor Tessa...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 7, 2017 |
SPM past board member Michael Millenson has an important new commissioned essay in the BMJ spelling out some parameters of collaborative health, which might as well have been written as participatory medicine. Happily, they made it open access so patients can read it...
by Dave deBronkart | May 24, 2016 |
As regular readers know, we’ve written many times about OpenNotes, the project funded by Robert Wood Johnson that blew the doors off of beliefs that bad things happen when patients see their charts. (We blogged about the original results in 2012.) Now a new...
by Dave deBronkart | Dec 13, 2015 |
As SPM advances the cause of patients as responsible drivers of their care, we sometimes hear denials or complaints from physicians who feel that e-patients needy, uninformed, self-centered burdens on busy clinicians’ time. Well, here’s a juicy...
by Dave deBronkart | Nov 27, 2015 |
This is a call for patient participation. We’re especially inviting members of our Society, but it’s open to anyone; feel free to circulate widely, especially to people with the conditions listed below! First, a bit of background, then the request. Regular...
by Dave deBronkart | Oct 20, 2015 |
There can be no question that Stanford Medicine X is, head and shoulders, the most patient-oriented medical conference in the world. Susannah Fox first wrote about it here in 2012 after the first annual event, and it’s gotten better every year. I agree with what...
by Dave deBronkart | Feb 11, 2015 |
This is a great week for SPM, for our colleagues at the Stanford Medicine X conference, and for everyone else who’s been working for years to shift medicine’s thinking about the role of the patient: Yesterday the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal)...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 13, 2014 |
An interesting editorial in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) describes BMJ’s path to including patients in reviewing the articles and research published in the Journal. I hope this initiative will be successful and copied by the healthcare world....
by Ileana Balcu | Apr 2, 2014 |
Our Member Beth Nash MD recommends this article: This is an incredible article in BMJ Quality & Safety about how patients, families and professionals can (and need to) work together to improve care (in this case, the care of cystic fibrosis patients). Here’s...
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Webinar today, 11am ET: Increasing patient involvement in assessing new treatmentsJuly 5, 2017
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