(2016) stated that "patient-centered care" (PCC) is one of the "pillars" of home care. They then asked the question, what is PCC in home care and how is it measured? A qualitative descriptive study explored the answer to this question. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 home ...
"Person-centered care (PCC) ensures that people are equal and active partners in the management of their hearing difficulties. Designed around the individual, PCC focuses on and is respectful of people’s needs and preferences, involves family and other communication partners, and includes shared de...
Person-centered care for common mental disorders in Ontario's primary care patient-centered medical homes: a qualitative study of provider perspectives For more than a decade, the Patient-Centered Medical Home model has been a guiding vision for the modernization of primary care systems. In Canada...
Why Should We Care about Person-Centered Care? Person-centered care (PCC) sounds technical, and something that hearing care providers (HCPs) should worry about, so why is it important for us—the people with hearing loss—to understand what it is and how to look for it? There are many r...
Patient-centered care is said to have a myriad of benefits; however, there is a lack of agreement on what exactly it consists of and how clinicians should deliver it for the benefit of their patients. In the context of maternity services and in particular for vulnerable women, we explored ...
They sat there, and their eyes got really wide, and they just looked at me and then at each other. They looked quite surprised. I wondered if this thought had never crossed their minds before. Learn more about patient centered careHERE....
Although all the roles in the team are important, because they bring in a wide range of skills, the most important person in the team isthe patient. What is effective patient care? Effective:Providing services based on scientific knowledge and best practice. Patient-centered: Providing care that...
Toolkit, a discharge-improvement program from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as one measure to ensure safe discharges. Hospitals can use the patient-centered, standardized approach to discharge planning to improve patient preparedness for self-care and reduce prevent...
With the rise of patient-centered care philosophies, healthcare organizations have learned that they need to do more than order tests and administer treatments. Creating a valuable patient experience means serving the whole person, giving rise to supportive care medicine. ...
On the other hand men who had never tested were most likely to be unsure of what their best sex life might contain, perhaps reflecting a broader ambivalence about the world. Discussion This paper describes an exploratory analysis of responses to one open question about what constitutes the best...