Patient-centered care: understanding its interpretation and implementation in health care.

摘要: Providing patient-centered care (PCC) has been the focus of recent organizational restructuring and quality improvement efforts in health care. Much written about PCC past 5 years; however, there are multiple perspectives interpretation implementation this concept. Descriptions literature generally, some way, refer to meeting patients' needs. Literature describing falls into two categories. The first category interprets as reorganization services around second defines understanding patient-perceived needs, priorities, expectations for PCC, is still most often implemented from a traditional provider-centered, disease-focused framework that results patient outcomes not congruent with preferences. Shifting model which patients define their needs priorities creates unique issues Nursing, its long-standing commitment being focused, lead research effort develop models consider incorporate Nurses must be mindful, socialization resulting underlying attitudes assumptions they bring work patients.