ReviewAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2017
Patient- or person-centred practice in medicine? - A review of concepts.
Review in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mapping Evidence and Constructing an Analytic Framework: An Umbrella Review Summarizing Primary Care Family Physicians' Experiences With Clinical Integration.Annals of family medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Relationally competent attitudes and actions: a systematic review of general practice literature.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Pooled it
- Learning person-centred consultation skills in clinical medicine: A randomised controlled case study.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2020Trial
- Exploring cultural safety and person- and patient-centred care in general practice: voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Assessment of the Level and Determinants of Empathy in Moroccan Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2026Article
- Stories that matter: a qualitative study of general practitioners' reflections and experiences of exploring patients' impactful life stories.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Practical Approaches to Patient-Centered Care in Europe: Mixed Methods Study Developing a Conceptual Framework for Comprehensive Cancer Care Networks.JMIR cancer · 2025Article
- Perception of patient-centred care and its relationship with management outcomes and complications among patients with DM in Malawi.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Adaptation of Clinical Research Staff to Decentralized Clinical Trials and Impacts on the Patient-Centered Experience: Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Treatment Beliefs Reflect Unmet Clinical Needs in Lysosomal Storage Diseases: An Opportunity for a Patient-Centered Approach.JIMD reports · 2025Article
- Positive health coaching: a conceptual analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- "Arming half-baked people with weapons!" Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.Global health action · 2024Article
- A Multidimensional, Person-Centered Framework for Functional Assessment in Dementia: Insights from the 'What', 'How', 'To Whom', and 'How Much' Questions.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Review
- Primary care family physicians' experiences with clinical integration in qualitative and mixed reviews: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- A scoping review of patient-centred tuberculosis care interventions: Gaps and opportunities.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Person-centred care in primary care: What works for whom, how and in what circumstances?Health & social care in the community · 2022Review
- Who is at the centre of what? A scoping review of the conceptualisation of 'centredness' in healthcare.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Reasonable adjustments for people with intellectual disability in acute care: a scoping review of the evidence.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Teaching and Learning Core Values in General Practice/Family Medicine: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- How to measure person-centred practice - An analysis of reviews of the literature.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundPerson-centred practice in medicine may provide solutions to several pressing problems in health care, including the cost of services, poor outcomes in chronic care and the rise in litigation. It is also an ethical imperative in itself. However, patient- or person-centred care is not well researched partly because of a lack of conceptual and definitional clarity.
aimThe aim of this review was to analyse essential elements, ethical principles, logic and the practical application of person-centred practice described in clinician- and researcher-defined conceptual frameworks, terms and practices.
methodsA search of review articles on patient- and person-centred care or medicine was conducted using Medline and Google Scholar. Secondary searches were conducted using references and citations from selected articles.
resultsFive conceptual frameworks were identified in terms of their practical application of the ethical principles of beneficence, autonomy and justice. They converge around a few central ideas such as having a holistic perspective of patients and their illness experience, a therapeutic alliance between the patient and clinician as well as respectful, enabling collaboration with the patient.
conclusionsTerminological differences appear to owe more to disciplinary origins than to substantive meaning. Beneficence needs to be balanced by and practised through respect for patient autonomy. Core ideas in existing conceptual frameworks of patient or person centredness can guide teaching and research. Considering the value and ethical imperative of person-centred practice, training institutions should train health care students and practitioners in its precepts.
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