Patient-Centered Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...

Patterns of communication during the preanesthesia visit.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Effective communication in the preanesthesia clinic is important in patient-centered care. Although patient-physician communication has been studied by recordings in other contexts, there have been no observational studies of the ... Read more...

Patient-centered communication to assess and enhance patient adherence to glaucoma medication.

30 Oct 2009 TOPIC: Using an understanding of a patient's difficulty in revealing nonadherence and patient-centered communication skills to identify and address barriers to adherence to glaucoma medication regimens. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: In addition to cost and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient-Centered Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
• Patterns of communication during the preanesthesia visit. 30 Oct 2009
• Overall effect of TCAB on initial participating hospitals. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB in the curriculum: creating a safer environment through nursing education. 30 Oct 2009
• A pod design for nursing assignments: eliminating unnecessary steps and increasing patient satisfaction by reconfiguring care assignments. 30 Oct 2009
• Quiet time: a daily period without distractions benefits both patients and nurses. 30 Oct 2009
• Improving communication among nurses, patients, and physicians. 30 Oct 2009
• TCAB: the 'how' and the 'what'. 30 Oct 2009
• Patient-centered communication to assess and enhance patient adherence to glaucoma medication. 30 Oct 2009
• Three-year cost analysis of function-centred versus pain-centred inpatient rehabilitation in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. 30 Oct 2009
• Patient-centered care and preference-sensitive decision making. 26 Oct 2009
• The potency of team-based care interventions for hypertension: a meta-analysis. 24 Oct 2009
• Use of multiperspective qualitative interviews to understand patients' and carers' beliefs, experiences, and needs. 12 Oct 2009
• Are women safer doctors? 8 Oct 2009
• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Navigating cultural competency: in preparation for an expected standard in 2010. 29 Sep 2009
• Commentary. 29 Sep 2009
• Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick? 26 Sep 2009
• Enhancing meaning in work: a prescription for preventing physician burnout and promoting patient-centered care. 21 Sep 2009
• CMA president-elect focuses on patient-centred care. 12 Sep 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