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Table 1 Health service outcomes

From: Evaluating health service outcomes of public involvement in health service design in high-income countries: a systematic review

Type of outcome

Studies

Discrete products (n = 32, 36.5%)

 Design or redesign of patient or program information products

[54, 56, 66, 67, 73, 86, 91, 98, 100, 101, 105, 107, 109, 111,112,113,114,115,116,117]

 Patient decision aids

[50, 76, 82]

 Frameworks, indicators or measures to guide or evaluate services

[39, 40, 55, 75, 78, 116, 118, 119]

 e-health products for managing health conditions, peer support, and/or planning healthcare visits

[42, 43, 45, 53, 57, 58, 60, 74, 80, 81, 89, 92, 94, 97, 102, 108, 120,121,122,123,124]

 e-learning training packages for staff

[83]

Improvements to health services (n = 39, 43.%)

 New education, support, recreational, or clinical programs, or new clinics or services

[47, 56, 64, 69, 84, 92, 93, 96, 99, 100, 109, 110, 112, 113, 116, 125]

 Improvements to enhance patient experience e.g., physical environment, menu, availability of personal belongings, service accessibility, and improving trust, communication and decision-making processes with healthcare professionals

[38, 54, 68, 77, 78, 86, 87, 90,91,92, 96, 100, 101, 106, 107, 109, 111, 115,116,117, 125, 126]

 Patient-oriented health records, consultant summary letters or discharge summaries (and processes to support their use in the service)

[61, 62, 70]

 Improvements to service processes, e.g., record keeping, data sharing, medication dispensing, care pathways, and appointment and recall systems

[38, 46, 54, 65, 68, 77, 79, 88, 90, 101, 106, 107, 109, 114, 125, 126]

 Processes for eliciting patient and family feedback

[105, 116]

 Redesign and/or expansion of existing services

[48, 104, 127]

 New volunteer or staff positions

[38, 44, 98, 117, 127]

 Design of staff recruitment processes, induction, education and training

[37, 38, 48, 54, 68, 87, 100, 109, 112, 117, 125]

System or policy level change/s (n = 19, 21.1%)

 Strategies to reconfigure or further develop services

[41, 51, 52, 96]

 Development of a conceptual model of recovery

[128]

 Prioritisation process to develop action plan for local service provision

[103, 113]

 Formation of local health action groups, steering groups, or committees

[84, 93]

 Developing infrastructure for patient and family engagement in decision-making processes

[95]

 Spread of experience-based co-design processes to other services and organisations

[38]

 Development of a quality assurance model for evaluating service improvements or frameworks to measure or evaluate service quality

[126, 129]