Empowerment, patient centred care and self-management

Patient empowerment--a patient-centred approach to improve care.

Promoting Self-Management and Patient Empowerment in Primary Care

The complexity of health care is increasing, associated with several factors including ag‐ ing populations and expanding comorbidities, growth in options for health interventions and patients’ access to information from electronic and other media. Management of chronic conditions with high morbidity such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pulmonary disease and depression const...

Patient-centred care in a self-centred world.

The first patient I saw after coming back from Africa had floaters. I had just spent several months in the war-torn region between Chad and the Sudan, staffing a Médecins Sans Frontières project doing its best to keep up with the demand: a hundred youngsters with malaria every week, malnourished infants, shrapnel wounds, and worse. I knew it would be tough coming back to the routine grind of pr...

Patient‐centred care is a way of doing things: How healthcare employees conceptualize patient‐centred care

BACKGROUND Patient-centred care is now ubiquitous in health services research, and healthcare systems are moving ahead with patient-centred care implementation. Yet, little is known about how healthcare employees, charged with implementing patient-centred care, conceptualize what they are implementing. OBJECTIVE To examine how hospital employees conceptualize patient-centred care. RESEARCH ...

Case Management: Client-Centred Care

Health care delivery in the developed world is in constant transformation. Structures and values are changing. New and more effective tools and technology are being used to identify and overcome diseases. Yet even if these new technologies are increasingly available to the public, not all of them have market potential. Cost efficiency is at the core of our health care system. Cost consideration...