Patient-centered care is an approach to health care in which clinicians respect and respond to each patient’s needs, values, and expressed preferences. It combines compassion, empathy, and responsiveness, and is widely treated as a core aim for improving care quality.
- Entry typeKey concept
- Category of its source unitMeasurement & Assessment Instruments
- DomainConversation & Relationships
What these mean
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Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
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Measurement & Assessment Instruments
Produces measures, scores, profiles or assessments through defined items, observations or measurement rules. The entry identifies what is measured and the conditions governing interpretation.