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Person-Centered Practice in Hospitalized Older Adults with Chronic Illness: Clinical Study Protocol

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

The aging trend in the population, the high rate of hospitalization, the affliction by multiple chronic illnesses, and the increased vulnerability of older people when hospitalized undoubtedly require a person-centered approach to healthcare—an approach that values a person’s participation in the healthcare relationship, supports shared decision making and mutual understanding, and respects a person’s values, preferences, and beliefs. However, despite widespread recognition that the adoption of such a clinical practice paradigm is paramount, its implementation and development are still challenging for various health systems and professionals worldwide. The implementation strategy for such a healthcare paradigm must be based on each country’s health system organization and practice contexts, as well as the professionals involved. The present work aims to provide guidelines for the understanding of the state of development of person-centered practice in the daily care of hospitalized ...

Are we ready for person centered care- 2013

Background: Person-centered care has long been identified as a key component of health systems and one of the six domains of quality. This study aimed to identify the perceptions of patients and physicians regarding person-centered care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). Methods: A multicountry, cross-sectional study was conducted in 6 countries of EMR during July 2012 to September 2012. From each country, an expert Family Physician (FP) was identified and invited for the study. During the first phase, 190 FPs practising for at least 6 months were recruited. In the second phase, the recruited FPs approached 300 patients aged > 18 years with 1 or more recurring problems. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS version 19. Results: Of a total of 360 patients, 53% were between 25-40 years of age and the majority 55.7% were females. Among physicians, 66.8% were females and 72.1% had undergone specialization in Family Medicine from EMR. About 36% of the patients, while 62.6% of the physicians, preferred a person-centered care model of care. Among physicians, field of specialization (AOR= 0.7; 95% C.I: 0.3-0.9) and regularity in continuing medical education sessions (AOR= 0.3; 95% C.I: 0.1-0.5) were significant factors for preferring a person-centered care model. Educational status (AOR= 3.0; 95% C.I: 1.1-7.9) was associated with a preference for person-centered care among patients.

The Person-Centred Care Guideline: From Principle to Practice

Journal of Patient Experience

Background: A standardized definition and approach for the delivery of person-centered care (PCC) in cancer care that is agreed upon by all key policy makers and clinicians is lacking. The PCC Guideline defines core PCC principles to outline a level of service that every person accessing cancer services in Ontario, Canada should expect to receive. This article describes the dissemination of the PCC Guideline in practice. Methods: Three strategies were utilized: (1) educational intervention via a PCC video, (2) media engagement, and (3) research/knowledge user networks. Results: As of October 2016, the PCC video has been viewed 7745 times across 92 countries. Significant mean differences pre- and post-PCC video were found for understanding of PCC principles ( P < .001) and perceived ability to bring these PCC principles to practice ( P < .001). Through content analysis, the PCC Guideline recommendations were referenced 236 times, with “Enabling Patients to Actively Participate ...

A rapid literature review on the health-related outcomes of long-term person-centered care models in adults with chronic illness

Frontiers in Public Health

IntroductionThe strong association between age and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, makes it imperative to promote self-care throughout life. Systematic knowledge on the health findings of person-centered care models may contribute to designing effective healthcare strategies to promote empowerment for self-care in long-term care.ObjectiveTo assess the association between the implementation of person-centered care models that promote self-care training in long-term care and health-related outcomes, among adults with chronic illness.MethodsA rapid review of the literature was performed following the Cochrane rapid review methodology. The electronic databases CINAHL, MedicLatina, MEDLINE, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection were searched for randomized experimental studies, published between 2017 and 2022, that implemented interventions based on person-centered models to promote self-care in adults aged ≥18 years with chronic diseases and needing long-term ...

Same and Different? Perspectives on the Introduction of Person-Centered Care as Standard Healthcare

This thesis examines a collection of cases and situations where efforts are being made to combine and unify the concerns of person-centred care, standardization and evidence-based medicine. Person-centred care is commonly associated with efforts to improve the quality of healthcare by catering for variation and difference while evidence-based medicine and standardized guidelines aim to assure quality by reducing difference and variation. Therefore, this thesis aims to investigate the paradoxes and tensions emerging as person-centred care is introduced as standard healthcare, and the actions taken by healthcare professionals to secure this healthcare reform in practice. The analysis builds on interviews with researchers working at a research centre where a particular standardized model of personcentred care has been developed; interviews with healthcare professionals working with and introducing this standardized model; observations of healthcare professionals applying this standardized model in practice, and related documents and written materials. The thesis builds on a practice oriented approach to personcentred care and adopts a material semiotic sensibility as a theoretical foundation. This approach enables detailed analysis of the messy, relational socio-material practices of person-centred care in action. Using the notions of tinkering and articulation work, the thesis extends the basic lessons of material semiotics by underscoring the importance of reciprocity - interrogating how inventive practices act back on and reshape tools, technologies and standards of person-centred care. Empirically the thesis encompasses four studies. Paper I examines the mundane technologies of person-centred care, the scripts and values inscribed in these technologies and the tinkering needed to balance and bring together potentially contrasting values in practice. Paper II investigates how person-centred care and evidence-based medicine are interwoven in practice and the tensions that emerge when a randomized controlled trial is used to evaluate person-centred care. Paper III draws on the notions of articulation work and invisible work to analyse the efforts involved in sustaining a particular standardized framework of person-centred care. Paper IV identifies the tenacious assumptions embedded in a standardized model of person-centred care and the challenges emerging when this model is introduced in diverse settings. Based on these studies I argue that while person-centred care is often advocated as the anti-thesis to standardized biomedicine this relationship is more complex. The studies in this thesis address attempts to develop a model of healthcare that is at once the same for all patients, yet also different by catering to each individual patient as a unique person. However, modelling care in this way is not without its challenges. One of the foremost challenges of making care recognizing the patient as a person into standard healthcare concerns how this person is actually imagined and enacted. By insisting on particular routines to be followed and specific values to be recognized particular versions of person-centred care risk embedding problematic assumptions of their own. These assumptions are very similar to those it aims to move beyond in the first place. The standardized model of person-centred care, as well as the tensions and challenges it gives rise to, are negotiated and managed in a variety of ways. Caregivers are obliged to make adaptions, translations and become creative mediators in order to enable the standardized model of person-centred care to hold together. They also have to coordinate different tasks, perform complex activities for which they have little prior training, and creatively interpret incomplete instructions in order to compensate for shortfalls in information. However, the thesis concludes that things could be otherwise if person-centred care was able to learn from material semiotics. Instead of conceiving person-centred care as something that has to be implemented and safeguarded in practice, an alternative vision would be to develop person-centred care in its local organizational complexity and thereby transform it from being something ready-made, which care professionals have to adhere to, to something that is an outcome of experimental interventions.