Mieke Rijken

Mieke Rijken, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands institute for health services research (Nivel) and Professor International health and social care  at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research focuses on person-centred integrated care, in particular on the identification of individuals with complex care needs, and how their care experiences could be improved through person-centred integrated care interventions. She also studies the transformation towards people-centred health systems and how patient-reported quality information could support this transformation. She led the PaRIS-SUR consortium that provided support to the OECD with the development and worldwide implementation of the new Patient-Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS). She also provides scientific support to the European Partnership on transforming health and care systems (THCS), the EU joint action JACARDI and EU projects on person-centred care for survivors of CAYA cancers. Furthermore, she has worked on integrated care for people with multimorbidity in several EU projects.

Publications:

Fischer L, Smeets RGM, Rijken M, Elissen AJM. Barriers and facilitators to integrated primary care from the perspective of people with chronic conditions and multiple care needs: a scoping review. Health Policy 2025, Art. nr. 105283

Rijken M, Valderas JM, Heins M, Schellevis F, Korevaar J. Identifying 'high need' patients with multimorbidity from their illness perceptions and personal resources to manage their health and care: a longitudinal study. BMC Family Practice 2020; 21: 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01148-3

Valderas JM, Gangannagaripalli J, Nolte E, Boyd C, Roland M, Sarria-Santamera A, Jones E, Rijken M. Quality of care assessment for people with multimorbidity. Journal of Internal Medicine 2019; 285(3): 289-300.