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2012
February
- “Patient Engagement!” Our Skin is in the Game
- Interview Series: What’s Engagement Now? Experts Discuss Emerging Challenges - Carol Cronin on Making Health Care Quality Information Useful
January
- What Are the Chances We Need to Understand Probability?
- Interview Series: What’s Engagement Now? Experts Discuss Emerging Challenges - Gail Hunt on The Growing Complexity and Prevalence of Caregiving
- Lessons from the Year of Living Sick-ishly
2011
December
- Book Review: Dissecting American Health Care: Commentaries on Health Policy and Politics
- The Waiting is the Hardest Part
- When Will Grasp Catch Up with Reach? Older People Are Missing the Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Illness
November
- Don’t Miss the Chance to Engage Us in Our Care When Introducing Patient-Centered Innovations
- What’s the Price on that MRI? Patients and the Price of Health Care
- Who Will Help Cancer Survivors Stay Healthy When Treatment is Over?
- The Rocky Adolescence of Public Reporting on Health Care Quality: It’s Not Useful Yet, and We’re Not Ready
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Trudy Lieberman
- Getting the Patient’s Perspective in Research: Will PCORI Deliver on its Promise?
October
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Carol Alter
- Drop-kicked into a Foreign Country
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Judith Hibbard
- “That’s Not What I Wanted to Hear!”: Evidence-Based Medicine and Our Hard Choices
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Shoshanna Sofaer
- Contagion: Action! Adventure! The Value of Science?
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Kate Lorig
- I am Not My iPhone
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - David Sobel
September
- The Formidable Complexity of Making (Some) Health Decisions: Book Review
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Molly Mettler
- Will Oz Connect Washington with the People in the Heartland on Health Care Quality?
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Connie Davis
- Experience Trumps Policy in Changing Our Health Care Beliefs
- Interview Series: Patient Engagement: Experts Talk about Challenges - Dale Shaller
- Nine Out of 10 of Us Like Health-Related Numbers
August
- Middle-of-the-Night Medicine is Rarely Patient-Centred
- “Ask Me if I Washed My Hands and Drank Gatorade in the Last Hour”
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Name Calling in Health Care
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Rhetoric Ahead of Reality: Doctor Ratings Not Useful Yet
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Bad Language: Words One Patient Won’t Use (and Hopes You Won’t Either)
July
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Our Preference in Health News: Uncertainty or Naked Ladies?
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Patient Advocates: Flies In The Ointment Of Evidence-Based Care
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Engagement Does Not Mean Compliance
June
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Should Doctors Protect Us from Data about Medical Risks?
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Check-In-The-Box Medicine: Can the Blunt Instrument of Policy Shape Our Communication with Clinicians?
- Appointment in Samarra*: Our Lives of Watchful Waiting
- Why Angry Birds Gets More Play Than Health Apps
May
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What Must We Know About What Our Doctors Know?
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No Magic Pill to Cure Poor Medication Adherence
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Patient-Centered Care: From Exam Room to Dinner Table
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Patient Navigators: Are They Necessary or Just Nice?
April
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Pothole Forming Ahead: Aging and the Migration of Health Services and Information Online
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Semper Paratus: Our Decisions About Emergency Care
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The Lemon of Illness and the Demand for Lemonade
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Are We All Ready for Do-It-Yourself Health Care?
March
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Does My Doctor Trust Me (and Does It Matter)?
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The “True Grit”-tiness of Sharing Health Care Decisions with Our Doctors
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Poster Child for Survivorship Planning
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It’s Time to Tango: Impatient With Progress on Patient-Physician Partnerships
February
- A Valentine To Shared Decision Making (Health Affairs Blog)
- One Small Step for Patient-Centered Care, One Big Step for Patient Engagement
January
2010
December
November
- Evidence That Engagement Does Make a Difference
- Series 5 of 5: Friends, Fatigue and the Slow Slog Back
- Series 4 of 5: Sharing the Burden by Richard Sloan
- Series 3 of 5: Hospital Discharge Without a Net
- Series 2 of 5: Patient Engagement on the Med-Surg Floor
- Series 1 of 5: Contemplating Safety While Lying Down
September
- When Someone Close Has Cancer...
- Another Devastating Diagnosis to Face
- Do Scientists Understand the Public? And Does It Matter?
- The People and Evidence-Based Medicine: We are All Above Average
August
- Antibiotic Resistance, Evidence-Based Medicine and the End of the World as We Know It
- New Solid Evidence Showing the Impact of Physician Communication on Our Engagement in Care
- Patient-Centered Care Should Minimize Post-Surgical Surprises
- You Want Me to Discover WHAT on My Personal Health Record?
- A Patient Perspective on Medication Adherence
July
- Who’s Got My Back?
- Will I Do it for My DNA? Can Personalized Medicine Spark Healthier Behavior?
- Lead Us Not into Expectations...
June
- "How can we pay less for our health care?"
- The Inconvenient Evidence of Alzheimer's
- Watching the UK Careen Toward National Online Medical Records
- Do Health Threats Migrate?
- Getting to the Right Doctor at the Right Time
- The Perils of Consenting Adults
- Some Effects of Our Unfamiliarity with Health Care
May
- Participate in My Care? Room for Improvement
- Our Shopping Problem
- Risky Treatment Decisions: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Americans Have Yet to Step Up to the New Demands of Health Care
April
- Evidence and Trustworthy Intermediaries
- What Is a Symptom, Anyway?
- The Squeeze of Mail-Order Drugs for People with Chronic Illness
- The Water Is Wide: Teens with Chronic Conditions Take on Their Own Care
- Emergency Back-up Plan for Slow EHR Implementation: Us
- Surprised I was So Unprepared
- Engagement ≠ Compliance
March
February
January
2009
- Our Health Information: Caught in a Wrinkle in Time - December 2009
- Active, Informed Patients: A New Wild Card - October 2009
- Not Just Nice-Necessary - September 2009
- "The Way We (Wish We) Were" - August 2009
- Cheaper Weed Whacker? Safer Hospital? Decisions, Decisions - July 2009
- What Is It About “No” That We Don’t Understand? - June 2009
- The Unbearable Elusiveness of "Evidence" - May 2009
- Spring Forward - March/April 2009
- Finding a New World Order - February 2009
- An Unintended Consequence of Better Evidence - January 2009
2008
- Health Care Consumers: Are We a Nation of Savvy Shoppers? - December 2008
- Trust: The First Casualty of Transparency - November 2008
- No More Dancing Alone - October 2008
- Test Anxiety - September 2008
- Fiddling While Health Care Fizzles - August 2008
- The Eternal Promise of the Electronic Health Record - July 2008
- Decontructing the Kennedy Coverage - June 2008
- Stuck Reading the Small Print - May 2008
- Let Them Eat Cupcakes? - April 2008
- My 81-Year Old Mom: Drug Safety Expert? - March 2008
- A Paradox of Progress - February 2008
- “Trust but Verify.” Verify? - January 2008
2007
- Better Computer Use Could Enhance Health - December 2007
- Expand Care to Treat Broad Patient Needs - November 2007
- Science Message Muddled, Public Befuddled - October 2007
- Health Reform May Require Outside Instigators - September 2007
- Research in the Medical Marketplace - August 2007
- No Free Lunch for Health Care Reform - July 2007
- So Many Choices, So Little Information! - June 2007
- Improving Health, Climate Similarly Daunting Challenges - May 2007
- Lessons and Cautions - April 2007
- The Price of Patient Passivity - March 2007
- Lipstick-On-A-Pig Health Reform - February 2007
- Power, Politics and Performance - January 2007

















