Quality of Patient-Centered Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2017) | Viewed by 45027
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Dear Colleagues,
Patient-centered care is responsive to patients’ values and needs and includes decision-making that is guided by patient preferences (Institute of Medicine 2001). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended improvements to patient-centered care to achieve high quality health care. The IOM endorsed six dimensions of patient-centered care which stated that care must be: 1) respectful to patients’ values, preferences, and expressed needs; 2) coordinated and integrated; 3) provide information, communication, and education; 4) ensure physical comfort; 5) provide emotional support—relieving fear and anxiety; and 6) involve family and friends (Institute of Medicine 2001). The Picker Institute and the International Association of Patients’ Organizations have also proposed similar frameworks of patient-centered care.
To examine patients’ experiences, reliable and valid measures that comprehensively assess patient-centered care are necessary. Patient-centered care measures identify areas where improvements are needed and inform quality improvement efforts. A systematic review of patient-reported measures assessing quality of patient-centered cancer care reported that the dimension of provision of information, communication and education was most commonly captured by measures while involvement of family and friends was least examined (Tzelepis et al 2014). This review also reported that the psychometric properties of patient-centered cancer care measures could be improved (Tzelepis et al 2014).
This Special Issue focuses on the quality of patient-centered care including the advantages, measures and provision of quality patient-centered care as well as interventions that aim to improve the delivery of patient-centered care. Submissions for this Special Issue on “Quality of Patient-Centered Care” are welcome.
References
Institute of Medicine. Crossing The Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington DC: National Academy Press; 2001.
Tzelepis F, Rose SK, Sanson-Fisher RW, Clinton-McHarg T, Carey ML, Paul CL. Are we missing the Institute of Medicine’s mark? A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures assessing quality of patient-centred cancer care. BMC Cancer. 2014;14:41.
Dr. Flora Tzelepis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient-centered care
- quality of care
- quality assessment
- patient-reported measures
- health care
- patient experiences
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