Patient-centered care may be pivotal in improving health outcomes for patients with asthma. In addition to increased attention in both research and clinical forums, recent legislation also highlights the importance of patient-centered outcomes research in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, whether patient-centered care has been shown to improve outcomes for this population...

There is nothing like medicine to attract reformers. Their arguments include claims that orthodox medicine produces iatrogenic harm, it is too expensive, it is arrogantly exclusive of other systems of practice, its practitioners lack empathy and communication skills, and its practitioners are wilfully ignorant of their patients’ beliefs and needs. Entwistle and Watt (2013) have done a good job ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this scoping review was to describe how three tenants of patient-centered care provision: communication, partnership, and health promotion are addressed in patient-centered care models/frameworks across the literature. METHODS A scoping review of literature published in English since 1990 was conducted using Medline, CINAHL, and EMBASE. A key term search strategy was...

patients. It means arranging health care in such a way that patients routinely participate in decisions about their own treatment. It means creating an atmosphere where staff naturally solicit patients' input and accept that input with respect. It means building a system that doesn't waste patients' time, offers easy access to care, and meets patients' needs for information , education, and pre...

BACKGROUND As a major factor in patient-centered care, patient education has a great impact on the quality of care provided by nurses; however, clinical nurses' performance with regard to patient education is not satisfactory. This study is an attempt to investigate barriers and facilitators in patient education from nurses' point of view. METHODS 122 nurses at Jahrom University of Medical Sc...