Patient-centered medicine is not an illness-centered, a physician-centered, or a hospital-centered medicine approach. In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life. As indicated by W. Osler, "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has." In our day, if the physicians and healthcare professionals could consider more than the diseased organ and provide healthcare by comforting the patients by respecting their values, beliefs, needs, and preferences; informing them and their relatives at every stage; and comforting the patients physically by controlling the pain and relieving their worries and fears, patients obeying the rules of physicians would become patients with high adaptation and participation to the treatment.
... ( a ) Pearson correlation r = 0.16 , p = .01 ( b ) Multiple regressions or multiple logistical regressions adjusted for clustering and controlling for confounding variables Figure 20.1 Diagram summarizing the relationships found among ...
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It’s time to highlight and share this approach with patients and involve them as active participants in their own healthcare. This is the method on which to build the new healthcare for the next century.
This timely fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development and brings the reader fully up-to-date.
In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life.
It describes and explains the patient-centered model examining and evaluating qualitative and quantitative research.
The second edition of Putting Patients First showcases what Planetree facilities and the Planetree organization have learned about the commitments, conditions, practices, and policies that are needed to do more than give lip service to ...
Moving from these premises, this e-book collect first research experiences, conceptual contribution and review of good practices in the area of Patient Engagement promotion.
This book challenges functional models for more aesthetic and ethical models, where communication is grounded in values systems of cultures.
In concurrence with other authors ( Carter & McGoldrick , 1989 ; Hartman & Laird , 1983 ; McDaniel et al . , 1990 ) , we define family as two or more people related or connected biologically , emotionally , or legally .