Toward Patient-Centered Care

Patient Centered Care Model

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

Responsible Patient-centered Care

Patient-centered Fertility Care: From Theory to Practice

Background & aim: Healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (PCC). Despite evident advantages of PCC, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. Therefore...

Toward patient-centered drug development in oncology.

n engl j med 369;5 nejm.org august 1, 2013 397 this treatment?” Regrettably, this information is generally missing from U.S. drug labels and from published reports of clinical trials — the two information sources most commonly available to people trying to understand the clinical effects of cancer drugs. In 2011, 15 hematology–oncology drugs were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...