title: A Framework for Incorporating Patient Preferences to Deliver Participatory Medicine via Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams.
abstract: Participatory medicine refers to the equal participation of patients and interdisciplinary healthcare team (IHT) members as part of care delivery. Facilitating workflow execution is a significant challenge for participatory medicine because of the need to integrate IHT members into a common workflow. A further challenge is that patient preferences should be considered when executing a workflow. To date there is limited research on supporting patient workflow as part of participatory medicine practices. To address that shortcoming we used a two-phase approach to develop a framework for participatory medicine that integrates different IHT members and workflows including the incorporation of patient preferences about care delivery options. Our framework uses a domain ontology to define the patient, IHT concepts and relations, as well as a workflow for operationalizing participatory medicine via an IHT. Proof of concept of the proposed framework is illustrated with a palliative care pain management case study.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kuziemsky
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Davood
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Astaraky
authors.affiliation: Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Szymon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wilk
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Wojtek
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Michalowski
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Andreev
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010358:Patient Participation; D057240:Patient Preference; D057188:Workflow