When you partner with your healthcare team, you help make your healthcare safer, more effective, and more satisfying.
Partnering with your healthcare team is important to:
- Improving your health and wellbeing
- Recovering from illness and injury
- Making sure care is safe and effective
While your healthcare provider is an expert on medical care, YOU are the expert on yourself, your needs, and what has worked best for you in the past.
By working together, you can develop a care plan that includes healthcare choices that best match your values, preferences, and needs.
Healthcare is complex and potentially dangerous with lots of moving parts. You have a big role in making sure care is safe. Read more below and also check out this fact sheet from the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute.