Participatient is a smartphone app to involve patients in decision making during their hospital stay.
The app was created as an academic project in the Netherland to use eHealth as a tool to stimulate patient engagement.
[1][2] The Participatient app has modules with information on the ward and the admission, pain medication, and urinary catheter use, with the goal to stimulate patient participation and make the hospital stay safer and more pleasant.
This was be evaluated in the PECCA project (Patient Engagement Counter CAUTI with an App),[3] supported by the Netherlands organisation for health research and development (ZonMw).
[4] In the PECCA study, urinary tract infections significantly decreased after the implementation of patient-centred app, together with clinical lessons, feedback via e-mails and support rounds for staff members.