Defining “Patient-Centered Medicine” — NEJM comments open until March 8th

Defining “Patient-Centered Medicine” — NEJM

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Defining “Patient-Centered Medicine”

Charles L. Bardes, M.D.

N Engl J Med 2012; 366:782-783March 1, 2012

Comments open through March 8, 2012

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Editorial: Canadian Medical Association - Early and continuing education: a prescription for achieving patient-centred care

"....It thus seems likely that bringing the patient’s perspective into the system isn’t enough to achieve the health outcomes people want and expect.
Even a perfect system won’t work if patients don’t know how to access it effectively. No matter what resources are available, lack of knowledge about what resources exist — both within and outside the health care system — and how to access them keeps people from receiving what they need when they need it. Also, our failure to help patients adequately understand their disease and its treatment underlies much of the suboptimal adherence to treatment that leads to otherwise preventable outcomes......"

Editorial : Measuing performance is essential to patient-centred care

"A health care system should, first and foremost, be organized to meet the needs of patients rather than the needs of institutions and providers. More often than not, however, the needs of institutions and health providers come first. How often do we see patients repeatedly
return to clinics on different days for poorly coordinated visits for diagnostic tests and follow-up with their physician?..."