As the leader of a large cardiovascular service line, it is your responsibility to ensure the providers understand the implications that patient experience have on the overall health of the patient. This requires you to understand correlations between provider action and patient behavior. You will explain how patient engagement and health status have a correlation. Before you meet with the providers you will provide them with a memo to inform them of the statistical correlation, and why their involvement is essential to patient engagement and outcomes. Your providers are likely to push back because they believe following evidence$-$based medicine should yield the appropriate outcome for the patient. You will need to provide data that demonstrates the implications of successful and extensive strategic coalitions. Carefully Read:

Chao, Y$.,$ Wu$,$ H$.,$ Scutari, M$.,$ Chen, T$.,$ Wu$,$ C$.,$ Durand, M$.,$ & Boivin, A$.(2017).$ A network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey $2004$ to $2011.$ BMC Health Services Research, $17(1),579.$ doi:$10\mathrm{.}1186/$s$12913-017-2496-5$

Initial Post: Based on their observations, in this scenario, and upon a careful review of the available literature, the student is to consider him or herself to be the division leader of a cardiovascular service line.

The student is to prepare a formal memo explaining why patient experience, and patient engagement have a direct correlation with health outcomes.

As a reminder, the student must convince the providers to be open to these ideas prior to attending the meeting.