Diabetes care: who are the experts?

Abstract

Objectives -To identify issues that patients and professionals consider important in diabetes care and differences in their priorities for care and to determine patients' and professionals'

Lay perspectives: advantages for health research

“…However, studies show this may not be the case,18 19 and many health professionals have a poor understanding of their patients' views 20…”

Open innovation in health care: Analysis of an open health platform

“…the participants' individual experiences with a disease, symptoms, therapy, and the health care system [4,30]. In addition, discussions on the open health platform can provide interesting insights for health professionals who have been shown to often have a poor understanding of patients' views [28,29].…”

“…Studies have shown that health care professionals often have a poor understanding of patients and do not necessarily represent patients' views [28,29]. It should thus be attempted to integrate the public and to make use of their 'experiential' knowledge, i.e.…”

Review of patient-reported type 2 diabetes service quality

“…Of those one study used quantitative methods, 47 five studies used qualitative approaches 5,25,[48][49][50] and three studies used mixed methods [51][52][53] to ascertain patients' perspective on the most important service quality factors.…”

“…Khunti 25 used several qualitative methods, including integrated brainstorming, focus group discussions and face-to-face interviews, in the same study to determine possible factors related to quality of delivered care for diabetes from the 51 Two studies we re c onducted in The Netherlands 47 and Norway, 53 with 107 and 660 people with type 2 diabetes, respectively. They used a self-administered questionnaire to obtain participants' perspectives on service quality factors.…”