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Researcher, Author, Educator | PhD in Human Services

What does it mean when we "center" something? I had a fascinating discussion this week with a doctoral student about the concept of patient-centered care, and it turns out that the term still needs to be fully operationalized. Conceptual models exist, which helps somewhat, but there still needs to be definitional clarity about the essential meaning. Likewise, client-centered, student-centered, and customer-centered care are vague terms that reflect our intuitions and assumptions about what that centering looks like, not robust research about it. Given that, how do we teach new practitioners about the idea? Should we be teaching it? How are we measuring outcomes if we need clarification on our interventions? What exactly is being centered, by whom, and how?

Patients' experiences of patient‐centred care in hospital setting: A systematic review of qualitative studies

Patients' experiences of patient‐centred care in hospital setting: A systematic review of qualitative studies

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