What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist

摘要: Patient-centeredness" is a dimension of health care quality in its own right, not just because connection with other desired aims, like safety and effectiveness. Its proper incorporation into new designs will involve some radical, unfamiliar, disruptive shifts control power, out the hands those who give receive it. Such consumerist view care, itself, has im- portant differences from more classical, professionally dominated definitions "qual- ity." New designs, so-called medical home, should incorporate that change. (Health Affairs 28, no. 4 (2009): w555-w565 (published online 19 May 2009; 10.1377/hlthaff .28.4.w555))