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Patient Activation Measure (PAM)

Patient Activation Measure (PAM)

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Controlling costs and achieving health care quality improvements require the participation of activated and informed consumers and patients. We describe a process for conceptualizing and operationalizing what it means to be “activated” and delineate the process we used to develop a measure for assessing “activation,” and the psychometric properties of that measure.

Hibbard, J. H., Stockard, J., Mahoney, E. R., & Tusler, M. (2004). Development of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM): Conceptualizing and Measuring Activation in Patients and Consumers. Health Services Research, 39(4 Pt 1), 1005–1026. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00269.x

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Very well done. Required reading

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361049/

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