More Face-to-Face Interaction Is Primary to Sufferer Engagement

Over 50% of healthcare professionals consider face-to-face interaction is the most significant patient engagement strategy.

More face time with sufferers is a top patient engagement strategy, while mHealth tools are not, says a recent survey from the New England Journal of Medicine.

The survey, administered between February and March of this year, gleaned insights from a total of 340 healthcare professionals, involving clinicians, clinician leaders, and hospital executives.

Overall, 59%of respondents said that increasing face-to-face time with patients was the best patient engagement strategy, followed by shared decision-making initiatives, with 54% of respondents reporting such.

Boosting patient access to relevant services was also a useful patient engagement strategy, according to 36% of respondents.