Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare

"The fact that all identified approaches to patient-centered care incorporated strategies to achieve effective communication, partnership, and health promotion indicates that clinicians can select a patient-centered approach from the literature that best suits their patient’s needs, and be confident that it will satisfy the three core elements of patient-centered care provision."

Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare
MK Constand, JC MacDermid, V Dal Bello-Haas, M Law
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:271

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Putting quality on the global health agenda

"Although there is no single definition of high-quality care, the Institute of Medicine describes it as having six key features: it is safe, effective, patient-centered, efficient, timely, and equitable."

Putting quality on the global health agenda
KW Scott, AK Jha
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 371(1):3-5

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Rethinking the patient

"Burden of Treatment Theory is a structural model that focuses on the work that patients and their networks do. It thus helps us understand variations in healthcare utilization and adherence in different healthcare settings and clinical contexts."

Rethinking the patient: Using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness
CR May, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:281

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Doing challenging research studies in a patient-centred way

"Our study provided information to help ensure that a challenging trial was patient centred in its design."

Doing challenging research studies in a patient-centred way: a qualitative study to inform a randomised controlled trial in the paediatric emergency care setting
K Woolfall, et al.
BMJ Open, 2014, 4:e005045

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Putting patients first

"This document builds on Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2013/14, the planning guidance for commissioners. Here, we set out in detail how we will support commissioners to use their valuable public resources to improve quality and secure the best possible outcomes for people."

Putting patients first: the NHS England business plan for 2013/14-2015/16
NHS England
April 2013

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Measuring what matters: the cost vs values of health care

"To achieve greater value for health system costs in Canada, we offer three recommendations to make a shift towards delivering value to Canadians in a cost effective, sustainable, and patient-centric model of health care."

Measuring what matters: the cost vs values of health care
A Snowdon, K Schnarr, A Hussein, C Alessi
Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation
November 2012

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Standards for patient-centered outcomes research

"Better methods will produce trusted information and lead to better healthcare decisions, and ultimately to better health."

Our questions, our decisions: standards for patient-centered outcomes research
M Helfland, A Berg, D Flum, S Gabriel, SL Normand
Patient-Centred Outcomes Research Institute
July 2012

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