M any health care organizations, including government and private agencies, have em braced the goal of providing patientand family-centered care. The thrust of this model of care is to involve patients and families in their own health care decisions and treatments. The Institute of Medicine (2001) recognized the value of this model in identifying patient-centered care as one of six points for h...

BACKGROUND Several residential aged-care facilities have replaced the institutional model of care to one that accepts person-centered care as the guiding standard of practice. This culture change is impacting the provision of aged-care services around the world. This systematic review evaluates the evidence for an impact of person-centered interventions on aged-care residents and nursing staff....

Background: Most of the nurses have accepted family-centered care (FCC) as a standard model of care; however, they meet difficulties using this model. The aim of this study was to explore the perception of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses about the implementation of FCC.Methods: This qualitative study was carried out on 11 in-service NICU nurses with at least three years of work exper...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this scoping review was to describe how three tenants of patient-centered care provision: communication, partnership, and health promotion are addressed in patient-centered care models/frameworks across the literature. METHODS A scoping review of literature published in English since 1990 was conducted using Medline, CINAHL, and EMBASE. A key term search strategy was...

patients. It means arranging health care in such a way that patients routinely participate in decisions about their own treatment. It means creating an atmosphere where staff naturally solicit patients' input and accept that input with respect. It means building a system that doesn't waste patients' time, offers easy access to care, and meets patients' needs for information , education, and pre...

Patient safety, and more broadly the quality of care, is typically discussed with reference to the reduction of preventable adverse events within hospitals and adherence to practice guidelines on care processes. We call it the 'care-centered approach' and recognize that the United States is a leader in the field. Another face of patient safety and care quality may be defined as the 'system-cent...

FAMILY-CENTERED care is an approach to the planning and delivery of health care that is based on partnerships among patients, families, healthcare providers, and hospitals. Family-centered care encourages a collaborative, team approach that respects individual and family strengths, cultures, traditions, and expertise. Providing care in a family-centered way honors the involvement of the patient...