Patient Engagement: Patients as Partners in Their Own Health Care

Engagement behavior framework (EBF) Provides a model with ten measurable expectations for an individual’s behavior (find safe, decent care, communicate with health care professionals, organize health care, pay for health care, make good treatment decisions, participate in treatment, promote health, get preventive health care, plan for the end of life, and seek health knowledge). These behaviors facilitate people seeking and utilizing safe care. They also guide an orientation toward patient-centeredness. (Gruman, Holmes-Rovner, French, Feffress, Sofaer, Shaller, & Prager, 2010).