Evidence Based Patient-Centered Care: Are We Ready?

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Are we ready for the proactive patient?

Evidence-Based Design: Structuring Patient- and Family-Centered ICU Care.

Three decades ago, the Picker Institute set forth recommendations about how to include patients and families in care delivery [1]. Since then, patients’ loved ones are increasingly recognized as vital to patients’ healing processes, particularly during hospitalizations for acute and life-threatening conditions. In a typical adult intensive care unit (ICU), a priority is to protect patients from...

Evidence - Based Patient - Centered Interviewing

Interest in the medical interview has increased dramatically over the past 2 decades as researchers have come to better understand the relationship between communication and health. Until the early 1970s, the clinical perspective of illness was almost entirely biomedical, and disease was defined as “deviations from the norm of measurable biological (somatic) variables” [1]. Data gathered for di...

Paperless handover: are we ready?

To cite: Vidyarthi AR, Coffey M. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015005027 Scribbling patient information into the margins of pieces of paper during handover is a time-honoured tradition. House staff carefully guard these lists in pockets of white coats, on clipboards, or tucked into shoulder bags. They pull them out once the beeper goes o...