Lee Thompson

Senior Researcher

Lee Thompson is a senior researcher at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include leading health care research, technical assistance, and evaluation projects. Drawing on her 20 years of experience in the fields of health and aging, she has expertise conducting outreach to and engaging a variety of stakeholders, including healthcare leaders and professionals, healthcare researchers, patients and families, and state agency officials, in quality improvement initiatives. Thompson is responsible for leading technical expert panels; designing, implementing and evaluating technical assistance supports and services; developing evidence-based toolkits; and developing and disseminating communication tools. A trained qualitative researcher, Thompson has extensive experience moderating focus groups and conducting cognitive interviews.

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Expertise
Health
Aging
Healthcare Analysis and Evaluation
Patient, Family, and Stakeholder Engagement

M.S., Community Development & Applied Economics and B.A., English, University of Vermont

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Related Work
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The Quest to Connect Patient and Family Engagement to Health Care Quality and Safety

19 Jul 2019
AIR has been a leader in the evolution of patient and family engagement as a key quality improvement strategy. In this Q&A, Thomas Workman, principal researcher at AIR, shares his insights about the current state of health care safety and patient and family engagement—and where we’re headed.
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Partnership for Patients: Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Care

In a project for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, AIR developed tools and strategies to help hospitals effectively engage patients and families, with the goal of improving safety in health care across the country. AIR developed the Strategic Vision Roadmap for Person and Family Engagement to help these ...

Research Fundamentals and Training for Multi-Stakeholder Research Teams

Engaging patients and other stakeholders to participate as partners in all phases of patient-centered outcomes research is new to many academic health researchers. AIR is developing two online learning programs to help stakeholders, researchers, and research teams build knowledge and skills.

Principles for Making Health Care Measurement Patient-Centered

10 Apr 2017
Patient-centered measurement involves partnering with patients in a meaningful way to decide what we measure, how we measure it, and how we report and use the results of measurement. Principles for Making Health Care Measurement Patient-Centered offers a vision of measurement that is patient-driven, holistic, transparent, comprehensible and timely, and ...

Aligning Forces for Quality

The Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative sought to lift the overall quality, equality, and value of healthcare in 16 communities across the country. AIR provided technical assistance to help the Alliances meet quality and cost goals by engaging consumers in their health and healthcare.

Guide to Support Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Quality and Safety

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, AIR led a team to develop, implement, and evaluate a Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Safety and Quality for the Agency for ...