Primary Care Practice Development: A Relationship-Centered Approach

Relationship Centered Health Care

Tresolini CP and the Pew-Fetzer Task Force. Health professions education and relationship-centered Care. San Francisco, CA: Pew Health Professions Commission, 1994. The original presentation of the term “Relationship-centered care,” which was intended to convey “the importance of interaction among people as the foundation of any therapeutic or healing activity.” Available from the Pew Health Pr...

Patient-centered Fertility Care: From Theory to Practice

Background & aim: Healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (PCC). Despite evident advantages of PCC, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. Therefore...

Patient-centered care and communication in primary care practice: what is involved?

OBJECTIVE This secondary, qualitative analysis examined physician-patient interaction and patient-centered care in a random sample of encounters of 44 physicians in 18 family practices. METHODS Fieldworkers were trained in qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies including participatory observation, narrative description, interviewing techniques and note-taking regarding practi...

A practice-centered intervention to increase screening for domestic violence in primary care practices

BACKGROUND Interventions to change practice patterns among health care professionals have had mixed success. We tested the effectiveness of a practice centered intervention to increase screening for domestic violence in primary care practices. METHODS A multifaceted intervention was conducted among primary care practice in North Carolina. All practices designated two individuals to serve as d...

Relationship-centered care: beyond the finishing school.