Essential practice in patient-centred care
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Essential practice in patient-centred care
Blackwell Science, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The last two decades have seen a marked shift in health care towards what has broadly become known as "patient-centredness". Yet, the movement to patient-centred care has not been well-documented in academic literature. Even its definition has been left implicit, thus allowing the concept to mean different things to different professional and patient groups. This book provides a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of patient-centred health care, and underlines the importance of mutual understanding among health care professionals as the basis of such care in its strong inter-disciplinary orientation. As well as providing a description of patient-centred care, practical illustrations are provided to illustrate the ways in which different disciplines can contribute to the effective development and implementation of patient-centred care.
Table of Contents
- Concepts of disease and patient-centred care
- re-lighting the lamp - the convenant approach to nursing care
- patients first - the obligations of the subjects of medical research
- ethnography and the development of patient-centred care
- training in patient representation
- patient control of post-operative analgesia - technology in the service of patient-centred care
- healthcare planning and delivery
- patients first - the role of rights
- the Plane Tree Project - creating a patient-centred environment
- teaching practice skills to medical students - our experience in Oxford
- engaging with the whole person as a person - professional craft knowledge in patient-centred nursing
- cultural diversity and the practice of moral medicine
- patient-centred approaches to the evaluation of health care.
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