Within the biopharmaceutical environment there are increased expectations for medical affairs to serve as a patient understanding facilitator, engagement champion and empowerment enabler. The collaborative development of a medical affairs patient-centricity framework to characterize avenues of medical affairs patient-centric activity could enhance transparency of objectives, input and outputs of medical affairs interactions with the patient. This article presents an initial opinion regarding how medical affairs interacts with patients to advance patient centricity. The proposal: medical affairs engages and collaborates with patients through strategic leadership, medical communication, evidence generation, patient engagement and experience of patient care. Once validated, such a framework's implementation could help clarify medical affairs competencies and behaviors necessary to optimize associated effort.

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构建以协作方式开发以患者为中心的医疗事务框架的案例。

在生物制药环境中，人们越来越期望医疗事务成为患者理解促进者、参与倡导者和赋权推动者。协作开发以医疗事务患者为中心的框架，以描述以患者为中心的医疗事务活动的途径，可以提高医疗事务与患者互动的目标、输入和输出的透明度。本文提出了关于医疗事务如何与患者互动以推进以患者为中心的初步意见。提案：医疗事务通过战略领导、医疗沟通、证据生成、患者参与和患者护理经验与患者进行互动和协作。一旦验证，这样的框架'