PiF - Patient in the Driver's Seat!

The research program Patient in the Driver's Seat! – Implementation of Patient-Driven Innovations for Collaborative Care" (PiF) is based on five patient-driven innovations in collaborative care and aims to study how new models of collaborative care can best be implemented in routine healthcare and in patients' daily lives.

The research is conducted in close collaboration with patients, family members, and healthcare providers to ensure that patients' needs are met.

Our Mission

The number of people with chronic illnesses is growing, creating new demands on healthcare. The limited hours that chronically ill patients spend with healthcare professionals are just a fraction of the time they must live with and manage their illness on their own.

Background

Without patient involvement, care cannot be delivered; therefore, healthcare services are co-produced. This supports a shift from professionally driven care to patient-driven care and self-care with professional support.

Collaborative care consists of decisions and actions undertaken jointly by patients, their families, and healthcare staff to achieve goals prioritized by patients. Thus, healthcare needs to move from the current focus on involving patients in care to instead involving healthcare in the patient's self-care to the degree that matches the patient’s needs and preferences.

This shift is a significant challenge and requires innovations in self-care and collaborative care, as well as knowledge on effective implementation.

Purpose

• To generate knowledge that supports people with chronic illnesses, their family members, and caregivers to effectively engage in collaborative care.
• To contribute knowledge on how to best implement patient-driven innovations within healthcare and in patients' lives.
• To advance methodologies for evaluating collaborative care from a patient perspective and to expand understanding of how to design and conduct research projects together with patients, family members, and healthcare staff.

Funding

The research program is funded by FORTE for the period 2019–2024.

Learn more about the research program here