"In recent years, the term 'patient participation' has been used in many different contexts."
Patient-centered care aims to ensure that every patient is treated with compassion and empathy, and that their care is tailored to their specific needs, preferences, and values.
Communication skills: The ability to listen actively, express oneself clearly, and communicate effectively with patients, families, and healthcare providers is critical in providing patient-centered care.
Cultural competence: The ability to recognize, understand, and respect different values, beliefs, and customs of patients from diverse cultures, and to tailor healthcare services accordingly.
Empathy and compassion: The ability to put oneself in the patient's shoes and to provide emotional support and comfort to patients and their families.
Shared decision-making: Involving patients and families in the decision-making process regarding their healthcare, collaborating with them to find the best treatment plan.
Health education: Providing patients and families with necessary information about their diagnosis, treatment plan, and available resources, empowering them to make informed decisions regarding their healthcare.
Patient safety: Ensuring that the patient's well-being and safety are protected through proper care and treatment, adherence to clinical guidelines, and rigorous monitoring.
Advocacy: Representing patients' interests, serving as their voice, and supporting their rights and dignity during their healthcare journey.
Patient engagement: Fostering a collaborative relationship with patients and families that leads to trust, mutual respect, and increased patient satisfaction.
Teamwork and collaboration: Working together with healthcare providers, patients, and family members to achieve the best possible healthcare outcomes.
Continuity of care: Providing ongoing support and care to patients and their families, coordinating and optimizing healthcare services across multiple healthcare settings.
Patient-centered outcomes: Measuring healthcare quality from the patient's perspective, focusing on their needs, goals, and satisfaction.
Healthcare ethics: Understanding ethical principles and guidelines that govern healthcare practices, including informed consent, confidentiality, and patient autonomy.
Integrated care: Coordinating healthcare services across different providers and settings to ensure holistic and comprehensive care for patients and their families.
Mental health and emotional well-being: Addressing the emotional, psychological, and social needs of patients and their families, including coping strategies, stress management, and mental health interventions.
Chronic conditions management: Providing ongoing care and support for patients with chronic conditions, including education, lifestyle changes, and disease management strategies.
Communication-centered care: This type of care focuses on the patient's communication needs with healthcare providers. This includes clear and effective communication of treatment options, prognosis, and care plan.
Culturally-centered care: This type of care considers the patient's unique cultural background, beliefs, and values in providing care. This includes culturally sensitive communication, respect for patient preferences, and collaboration with ethno-cultural interpreters.
Family-centered care: This type of care recognizes the importance of the patient's family in the care plan. It involves active collaboration with the patient's family members to provide holistic care, addressing their physical, emotional, and social needs.
Holistic care: This approach focuses on the whole person, including their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. It incorporates complementary and alternative therapy modalities such as meditation, acupuncture and yoga to support the patient's overall well-being.
Integrated care: This type of care coordinates medical and mental health services to ensure coordinated and continuous care across settings.
Palliative care: This type of care aims to improve the quality of life of patients with serious illnesses by addressing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. It provides symptom management, pain control, and emotional support to patients and their families.
Shared decision-making care: This type of care is collaborative between healthcare providers and patients in making treatment and care decisions. It involves providing information, support and empowering patients to make informed decisions about their care.
Trauma-informed care: This type of care focuses on recognizing and addressing the impact of past traumatic experiences on a patient's physical and mental health. It aims to empower patients and promote healing opportunities.
Well-being centered care: This type of care prioritizes the overall well-being of patients, by focusing on their individual needs, strengths, and preferences. It recognizes the role of healthcare providers in supporting patients to achieve their best possible quality of life.
"Informed consent is a process where patients make decisions informed by the advice of medical professionals."
"The president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Donald Berwick proposed a more nuanced definition in 2009."
"The experience... of transparency, individualization, recognition, respect, dignity, and choice in all matters, without exception, related to one's person, circumstances, and relationships in health care are concepts closely related to patient participation."
"Shared decision making, participatory medicine, health consumerism, and patient-centered care."
"Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Engagement (PPIE) in the sense of the older term coproduction (public services)."
"In 2019 a collection of papers on this research topic was published with newer information."
"It has proven difficult to ensure the representativeness of patients."
"There are 'three different types of representation' which have 'possible applications in the context of patient engagement: democratic, statistical, and symbolic.'"
"Patient participation is a trend that arose in answer to medical paternalism."
"Transparency, individualization, recognition, respect, dignity, and choice in all matters, without exception, related to one's person, circumstances, and relationships in health care."