Table 2 Domains and types of PRI actions cited

Healthcare quality and safety improvement

158 (37%)^a

72 (54%)

 Organisation and design of care trajectories, integrated care development in inpatient and outpatient settings

64 (41%)^b

 Patient information or mediation processes between patients and medical teams or hospital administration

40 (25%)^b

 Care unit organisation, improvement of hospital service delivery

31 (20%)^b

 Patient safety (medication safety, analysis of serious adverse events, control of care-related infections, etc)

16 (10%)^b

 Unspecified

7 (4%)^b

Healthcare provision and support for other patients

122 (29%)^a

80 (60%)

 Development of therapeutic patient education programmes

47 (39%)^b

 Psychological support for other patients (individual or collective peer support)

40 (33%)^b

 Entertainment activities for patients in care units

16 (13%)^b

 Peer support and guidance in patients’ daily lives

16 (13%)^b

 Unspecified

3 (2%)^b

Initial and continuing health professional education and patient training

85 (20%)^a

48 (36%)

 Continuing education

37 (44%)^b

  Medical professions

16

  Paramedical professions

18

  Unspecified

3

 Initial student education

27 (32%)^b

  Medical studies

12

  Midwifery studies

5

  Nursing studies

5

  Dentistry studies

2

  Pharmacy studies

2

  Physiotherapy studies

1

 Patient training courses

18 (21%)^b

 Unspecified

3 (3%)^b

Health research

59 (14%)^a

42 (32%)

 Communication on research projects

25 (42%)^b

 Identification of research priorities

11 (19%)^b

 Data collection

8 (14%)^b

 Design of data collection methods and tools

7 (12%)^b

 Design of research protocols (research questions, study design, outcomes, etc)

5 (8%)^b

 Unspecified

3 (5%)^b