Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Diseases
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025 | Viewed by 13100
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medical Clinic, University of Juiz de Fora, São Pedro, Minas Geais, Brazil
Interests: diabetes prevalence; cost of diabetes; diabetes care; diabetes management improvement; diabetes self-management education; diabetes mortality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Care for a patient with chronic conditions cannot isolate the disease from the person, the family, and the community to ensure that patient mental and social needs are supported. Providers need to see patients as partners, since they tend to avoid taking measures they do not understand or are away from their reach. The current Special Issue aims to collect original articles as well as reviews relevant to patient-centered care.
Among others, this Special Issue aims to identify reports on chronic condition patient-centered care describing:
- Healthcare facilities that define proactive programs and strategies focused on not only achieving patient clinical measures but also addressing mental, psychological, spiritual, and social wellbeing issues.
- Healthcare organizations ensuring that patient needs are met by following up-to-date evidence-based clinical protocols, guidelines, and defined pathways integrating primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
- Monitoring systems providing data for individual patient follow-up, practice evaluation, and supporting quality improvement strategies and care coordination.
- Self-management programs empowering patients and families to achieve disease control and preventive goals.
- Healthcare providers or organizations establishing links to community groups as well as churches, schools, and workplaces.
Dr. Alberto Barcelo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient-centered care
- shared decision-making
- evidence-based medicine
- care pathway
- care process
- healthcare management
- chronic condition
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