Patient and Family Advisory Councils: Providing Patient-Centered Care

Resource: Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFAC): Provide Patient-Centered Care by Leveraging the Role of PFACs in Your Organization

This toolkit offers practical steps for forming a PFAC, such as ensuring leadership support, interviewing and selecting members, and initiating the council’s first project. The toolkit includes tools, resources and strategies to help your team advance patient and family engagement, in line with Key Driver 5: Engage with patients and families in evidence-based care and quality improvement.

Institution of origin: American Medical Association (AHA)

Authors: Hatlie, MJ, Washington, K

Copyright information: © 2016 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Acknowledgements: Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), Project Patient Care, STEPSForward

Publication date: August 31, 2016

Note: This toolkit's resources can be downloaded from: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2702594#resource.