Sentence examples for patient advisor from inspiring English sources

We've had some effort to encourage practices to take onboard a patient, a patient advisor".

The LAP sensor was attached to an implantable subcutaneous antenna coil that communicated via telemetry the LAP data to a handheld computer [PAM™ (Patient Advisor Module)].

Eight GPs reported that they often asked patients to call the county's patient advisor to discuss which department they would like to be referred to, one GP adding that in some cases she recommended accepting a long waiting time if the department was an especially good one.

The Institute for Patient and Family Centred Care [ 38] suggested that incorporating patients as 'champions' for engagement within the health system helped to avoid tokenism; for example, the patient advisor was involved in all stages of a project or initiative (from planning to evaluation).

A number of keloid patients who were recruited in the early phases of the study served as patient advisors.

While patient advisors were generally able to answer many questions of participants, they did not participate in the actual recruitment.

Keloid patients (patient advisors), community leaders, kings/chiefs and medical directors were engaged to assist the research teams with recruitment strategies.

Patient advisors assisted by passing information about the project to individuals with keloids in their communities, and instructed them to contact the recruitment team if they were interested in participating.

We would like to thank formally the members of the Trial Steering Committee (Dr David Walker, Dr Martyn Lewis, Dr Lisa Farndon, Mrs Lynne Lister), our patient advisors on the Trial Management Group (Maria Dawson and Evelyn Dutton) and the recruitment leads Rachel Ochiel, Jane McAdam and Karen Walker.

Among participants, 54% were medical assistants (MAs), 27% were registered nurses, 15% worked as registration coordinators, patient financial advisors, or administrative assistants, and 4% were clinical social workers.

There is a consensus among patient safety advisors that the best way of improving reporting and reducing harm is to target the underlying systems failures rather than take action against individual members of staff [ 7].