Making Person Centred Care A Reality

From vision to action: Making patient-centred care a reality

Rhetoric and reality in person-centred care: introducing the House of Care framework.

We would like to follow up the recent editorial entitled ‘Safer “chemsex”’ by Ma and Perera1 by including sexually transmissible enteric infections (STEI) among the pathogens whose transmission may be associated with chemsex. Shigella, which causes a range of gastrointestinal symptoms in humans,2 is the primary example here, although verocytotoxinproducing Escherichia coli has also been describ...

Achieving patient-centred care: a reality check.

the practice of nursing as an art and a science affords our profession a unique leadership role to be champions for patient-centred care. We know that patientcentred care has been widely accepted, so why do we still need to be reminded by healthcare leaders, organizations and governments of its significance? Why does the implementation of inter-professional patient-centred practice continue to ...

What is person-centred care in dementia?

Caring about symptoms in person-centred care

In the present article, we emphasize the symptom experience perspective in person-centred care and discuss barriers to implementation of this approach. There are obstacles to overcome: the diversity of understandings of symptoms in clinical settings, the current biomedical discourse and the incompleteness of symptom research. Since the 19th century, the biomedical perspective has been powerful ...