Patient-centred care: making cancer treatment centres accountable

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

Oncology patient-centered medical home and accountable cancer care

Correspondence to: John D. Sprandio, MD, Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology, PC, 2100 Keystone Avenue, Suite 502, MOB, Drexel Hill, PA 19026; telephone: 610622-3818; fax: 610-622-6407; e-mail: jsprandio @cmoh.org. M edical oncologists are playing an ever-expanding role in the de livery of cancer care. The current and future challenges they face in their efforts to deliver effective,...

Point of care testing: making innovation work for patient-centred care.

Furthermore, the core of good healthcare is centered on the patient supported by healthcare professionals. Fragmentation in communication by distance, culture or time – whether it be in the examination and diagnosis (including tests) or in the treatment phase – puts at risk the quality of the relationship between patient and physician/carer. Point-of-care testing can overcome the potentially di...

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 ...

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...