Patient-Centered Care - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension: a meta-analysis.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Team-based care is the strategy that has had the greatest effect on improving blood pressure (BP). The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the potency of interventions for BP involving nurses or pharmacists. METHODS: A ... Read more...

Wound-related pain: key sources and triggers.

30 Jul 2009 Wound-related pain is a common phenomenon for many patients and in recent years there has been a growing awareness of the impact it has on both wound healing and quality of life. Research in the field of wound pain and the patient experience, the ... Read more...

[Pre-Therapy in nursing home care: new approaches to persons with severe dementia]

17 Jul 2009 In this contribution the results of a descriptive explorative study are presented, in which the significance of Pre-Therapy techniques for dementia care is examined. The approach was developed by Garry Prouty. In the project the approach was taught ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient-Centered Care - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension: a meta-analysis. 24 Oct 2009
• Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick? 26 Sep 2009
• Is there a doctor in the home? 30 Aug 2009
• The dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education. 23 Aug 2009
• Wound-related pain: key sources and triggers. 30 Jul 2009
• Patient-centered health care: are opioids a special case? 27 Jul 2009
• [Pre-Therapy in nursing home care: new approaches to persons with severe dementia] 17 Jul 2009
• Compliance: a concept analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Academy launches comprehensive patient-centered medical home resources. 29 Jun 2009
• Advocacy: the time is now. 29 Jun 2009
• Importance of evidence grading for guideline implementation: the example of asthma. 29 Jun 2009
• Elements of the patient-centered medical home in family practices in Virginia. 29 Jun 2009
• Protocolized and target-based sedation and analgesia in the ICU. 29 Jun 2009
• Client-centred home modifications improve daily activity performance of older adults. 29 Jun 2009
• Conveying compassion through attention to the essential ordinary. 29 Jun 2009
• Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care. 29 Jun 2009
• Toward a modular EHR. 29 Jun 2009
• Web-based guided insulin self-titration in patients with type 2 diabetes: the Di@log study. Design of a cluster randomised controlled trial [TC1316]. 7 Jun 2009
• Patient-centered cardiopulmonary bypass concepts. 30 May 2009
• Evaluating the patient journey approach to ensure health care is centred on patients. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient-Centered Care'

Definition: Design of patient care wherein institutional resources and personnel are organized around patients rather than around specialized departments. (From Hospitals 1993 Feb 5;67(3):14)

Descriptor UI: D018802

Alternative terms: Patient-Centered Care; Care, Patient-Centered; Patient Centered Care; Patient-Focused Care; Care, Patient-Focused; Patient Focused Care; Nursing, Patient-Centered; Nursing, Patient Centered; Patient-Centered Nursing; Patient Centered Nursing;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.675; N04.590.233.727.407; N04.590.720;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: institutional & admin management: do not confuse with PATIENT CARE PLANNING involving individual patient