Patient Centered Medicine

Edited by Omur Sayligil

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Abstract: Patient-centered medicine is not an illness-centered, a physician-centered, or a hospital-centered medicine approach. In this book, it is aimed at presenting an approach to patient-centered medicine from the beginning of life to the end of life. As indicated by W. Osler, "It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has." In our day, if the physicians and healthcare professionals could consider more than the diseased organ and provide healthcare by comforting the patients by respecting their values, beliefs, needs, and preferences; informing them and their relatives at every stage; and comforting the patients physically by controlling the pain and relieving their worries and fears, patients obeying the rules of physicians would become patients with high adaptation and participation to the treatment.

JEL-codes: I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 978-953-51-2991-2
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Ethical Considerations Related to Narrative Medicine

Halil Tekiner

Holistic Care Philosophy for Patient-Centered Approaches and Spirituality

Nilufer Demirsoy

Patient-Centered Medicine and Prevention of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Mariel Chance, C.E. Miller, Monika M. Wahi and Kenton Stone

Patient-Centered Medicine and Self-Help Groups in Germany: Self-Help Friendliness as an Approach for Patient Involvement in Healthcare Institutions

Stefan Nickel, Christopher Kofahl and Alf Trojan

Patient-Centred Care in Maternity Services

Claire De Labrusse, Anne-Sylvie Ramelet, Tracy Humphrey and Sara MacLennan

Promoting Patient-Centered Care in Chronic Disease

Ana Monteiro Grilo, Margarida Custodio dos Santos, Ana Isabel Gomes and Joana Santos Rita

The Veterans Affairs Patient Aligned Care Team (VA PACT), a New Benchmark for Patient-Centered Medical Home Models: A Review and Discussion

Balmatee Bidassie

Updated Landscape of the Tumor Microenvironment and Targeting Strategies in an Era of Precision Medicine

Yu Sun and Paul Chiao

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DOI: 10.5772/63030

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