Person-centered care refers to “providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.” ...

I first heard of person-centered care as a junior human resources staffer for a large healthcare company. It was 1990, and the industry was decades into a transformation that began in the 1940s. This ...

Person-centred care (also known as patient-centred care) is the philosophy of giving power back to patients and putting them “at the centre” of care. As a health services researcher working with an ...

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Studies show that people often do not have opportunities to engage in health-related decision-making with their health-care providers. For people experiencing health issues and entering the health ...

We all deserve high-quality hearing care. But how do we know if we are receiving it? In recent years, healthcare has been moving toward a model called person-centered care—an approach that prioritizes ...

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

Precision medicine should target the person and not only the tumor. Patients' supportive care needs deserve the same attention and focus as diagnostics, therapeutics, and molecular biology. A ...

Investment in nurse leadership and workforce wellbeing results in measurable benefits for the workplace and for patients, according to a new report from a nursing charity. It said that nurses who had ...