Patients as team members: opportunities, challenges and paradoxes of including patients in multi-professional healthcare teams

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1050-1065

  Martin, Graham P ^a   Finn, Rachael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; England; National Health Service (NHS); Partnership; Patient and public participation (PPI); Team; Trust; User involvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT STUDY; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATE MEDICINE; TRUST;

EID: 80455164715     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01356.x     Document Type: Article

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