Doctors are faced with challenges in their profession multiple times a day, from a difficult diagnosis to delivering bad news to a patient. One of the more commonplace, but less intense, tasks that a doctor faces is trying to facilitate patient engagement. In short, doctors are regularly trying to instil a sense of responsibility and accountability in their patients regarding their health and the information that follows.
It can be challenging to try to improve patient engagement for a number of reasons, but ultimately there are steps that can be taken to improve this patient metric. This guide hopes to illuminate a few ways that doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals can improve their patients