ReviewAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2020
How to measure person-centred practice - An analysis of reviews of the literature.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- How to measure the core functions of primary care in low-income and middle-income country settings.BMJ global health · 2025Review
- PCPI-S SF: development and psychometric assessment of the Person-centred Practice Inventory Staff-Short Form.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2025Article
- Adapting the Primary Care Assessment Tool for sub-Saharan Africa: a validation study.BJGP open · 2025Article
- Patients' Experiences of Person-Centered Care in the Context of Allogenic Stem Cell Transplantation.Clinical nursing research · 2025Article
- A framework for the continuous monitoring of person-centred hospital care: validation of a checklist for participatory service improvement.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Time is now to consider how we evaluate person-centred care-the role of patient-reported outcomes.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Global lessons on delivery of primary healthcare services for people with non-communicable diseases: convergent mixed methods.Family medicine and community health · 2024Article
- Further development and evaluation of a questionnaire targeting person-centred outpatient care for persons with long-term conditions.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Article
- Translating theory into clinical practice: a qualitative study of clinician perspectives implementing whole person care.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Communication skills of general practitioners in Nairobi, Kenya: a descriptive observational study.BJGP open · 2022Article
- Alternative mechanisms for delivery of medication in South Africa: A scoping review.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2021Article
- Sexual History Taking: Perspectives on Doctor-Patient Interactions During Routine Consultations in Rural Primary Care in South Africa.Sexual medicine · 2021Article
- Do socio-economically disadvantaged patients prefer shared decision-making?South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundFacilitation and collaboration differentiates person-centred practice (PcP) from biomedical practice. In PcP, a person-centred consultation requires clinicians to juggle three processes: facilitation, clinical reasoning and collaboration. How best to measure PcP in these processes remains a challenge.
aimTo assess the measurement of facilitation and collaboration in selected reviews of PcP instruments.
methodsOvid Medline and Google Scholar were searched for review articles evaluating measurement instruments of patient-centredness or person-centredness in the medical consultation.
resultsSix of the nine review articles were selected for analysis. Those articles considered the psychometric properties and rigour of evaluation of reviewed instruments. Mostly, the articles did not find instruments with good evidence of reliability and validity. Evaluations in South Africa rendered poor psychometric properties. Tools were often not transferable to other socio-cultural-linguistic contexts, both with and without adaptation.
conclusionThe multiplicity of measurement tools is a product of many dimensions of person-centredness, which can be approached from many perspectives and in many service scenarios inside and outside the medical consultation. Extensive research into the myriad instruments found no single valid and reliable measurement tool that can be recommended for general use. The best hope for developing one is to focus on a specific scenario, conduct a systematic literature review, combine the best items from existing tools, involve multiple disciplines and test the tool in real-life situations.
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