open access - 4 articles: Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care NEJM

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Goal-Oriented Patient Care — An Alternative Health Outcomes Paradigm

D.B. Reuben and M.E. Tinetti

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Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care

M.J. Barry and S. Edgman-Levitan

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Defining “Patient-Centered Medicine”

C.L. Bardes

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What’s the Alternative? The Worldwide Web of Integrative Medicine

R. Srivastava

open access: Shared Decision Making — The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care — NEJM

Nothing about me without me.

— Valerie Billingham, Through the Patient's Eyes, Salzburg Seminar Session 356, 1998

"Caring and compassion were once often the only “treatment” available to clinicians. Over time, advances in medical science have provided new options that, although often improving outcomes, have inadvertently distanced physicians from their patients. The result is a health care environment in which patients and their families are often excluded from important discussions and left feeling in the dark about how their problems are being managed and how to navigate the overwhelming array of diagnostic and treatment options available to them..........If we can view the health care experience through the patient's eyes, we will become more responsive to patients' needs and, thereby, better clinicians. Recognition of shared decision making as the pinnacle of patient-centered care is overdue. We will have succeeded in building a truly patient-centered health care system when an informed woman can decide whether to have a screening mammogram and an informed man can consider whether to have a screening prostate-specific–antigen test without their clinicians labeling the decision “wrong” on the basis of different values and preferences.

open access: The patient, the illness, the doctor, the decision: negotiating a ‘new way’ through person-centered medicine - International Journal of Person Centered Medicine

 "As we write, nowhere within modern medicine is the need for greater understanding more acutely necessary than in its philosophy of the patient as a person......


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