Full Description
The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine - Transforming the Clinical Method was published in 1995. This timely fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development, and it brings the reader fully up to date. It reinforces the relevance of the method in the current much-changed realities of health care in a world where virtual care will remain common, dependence on technology is rising, and societal changes away from compassion, equity, and relationships toward confrontation, inequity, and self-absorption.
Fully revised by its highly experienced author team ensuring wide interest and written for those practising now and for the practitioners of the future, this new edition will be welcomed by a wide international audience comprising all health professionals from medicine, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and other fields.
Contents
Dedication
Preface
About the authors
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
1. Introduction
2. The Evolution of Clinical Method
PART TWO: THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF THE PATIENT-CENTERED CLINICAL METHOD
Introduction
3. The First Component: Exploring Health, Disease and the Illness Experience
4. The Second Component: Understanding the Whole Person,
Section 1 ‒ Individual and Family
5. The Second Component: Understanding the Whole Person
Section 2 ‒ Context
6. The Third Component: Finding Common Ground
7. The Fourth Component: Enhancing The Patient-Clinician Relationship
PART THREE: APPLICATIONS OF PATIENT-CENTERED PRINCIPLES IN A VARIETY OF HEALTH CARE CONTEXTS
8. Team-Centered Approach: How to Build and Sustain a Team
9. Patient-Centered Approaches in the Face of New Technologies
PART FOUR: LEARNING AND TEACHING THE PATIENT-CENTERED CLINICAL METHOD
10. Becoming a Physician: The Human Experience of Medical Education
11. Learner-Centered Teaching
12. Challenges in Learning and Teaching the Patient-Centered Clinical Method
13. The Case Presentation as a Teaching Tool for Patient-Centered Care
PART FIVE: RESEARCH ON PATIENT-CENTERED CARE
14. Using Qualitative Methodologies and Mixed Methods Approaches to Illuminate Patient-Centered Care
15. Evidence of the Impact of Patient-Centered Care on Clinician Well-being and Patient Outcomes
16. Measuring Patient Perceptions of Patient-Centeredness
17. Measuring Patient-Centeredness
PART SIX
18. Conclusions
Index
