What is Person-Centered Healthcare?

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• Patient-Centered Care: An Introduction to What It Is and How to Achieve It
  Steven Lewis
• Declaration on Patient-Centred Healthcare
  International Alliance of Patients' Organizations
• Types of centredness in healthcare: themes and concepts
  Julian C. Hughes, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust
  Claire Bamford, Newcastle University
  Carl May, Newcastle University
• Improving Communication — Improving Care: An Ethical Force Consensus Program
  American Medical Association
• Patient-Centered Care: What Does It Take?
  Dale Shaller, Shaller Consulting
• Patient-Centered Care Improvement Guide
  Susan Frampton, PhD
  Sara Guastello
  Carrie Brady
  Maria Hale
  Sheryl Horowitz, PhD
  Susan Bennett Smith, MSN, RN, CNA-BC
  Susan Stone, RN, PhD
• Effects of person-centred care in patients with chronic heart failure: the PCC-HF study
  Inger Ekman, University of Gothenburg
  Axel Wolf, University of Gothenburg
  Lars-Eric Olsson, University of Gothenburg
  Charles Taft, University of Gothenburg
  Kerstin Dudas, University of Gothenburg
  Maria Schaufelberger, University of Gothenburg
  Karl Swedberg, University of Gothenburg

• Patient-centered communication and diagnostic testing
  Ronald M. Epstein, MD, University of Rochester
  Peter Franks, MD, University of California, Davis
  Cleveland G. Shields, Ph.D., University of Rochester
  Sean C. Meldrum, MS, University of Rochester
  Katherine N. Miller, BS, University of Rochester
  Thomas L. Campbell, MD, University of Rochester
  Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH, University of Rochester
• Patient- and Family-Centered Care Initiative is Associated with High Patient Satisfaction and Positive Outcomes for Total Joint Replacement Patients
  Anthony M. DiGioia III, MD
  Patty Embree, The PFCC Innovation Center of UPMC

• The Impact of Patient-Centered Care on Outcomes
  Moira Stewart, Ph.D., The University of Western Ontario
  Judith Belle Brown, Ph.D.
  Allan Donner, Ph.D.
  Ian R. McWhinney, OC, MD
  Julian Oates, MD
  W. Wayne Weston, MD
  John Jordan, MD
• Observational study of effect of patient centredness and positive approach on outcomes of general practice consultations
  Paul Little, Southampton University
  Hazel Everitt, Southampton University
  Greg Warner, Nightingale Surgery, Romsey, Hampshire
  Michael Moore, Three Swans Surgery, Salisbury, Wiltshire
  Clare Gould, Southampton University
  Kate Ferrier, Southampton University
  Sheila Payne, University of Sheffield
• Resident outcomes of person-centered care in long-term care: A narrative review of interventional research
  Junxin Li, The University at Buffalo School of Nursing
  Davina Porock, The University at Buffalo
• Patient and Family-centered Collaborative Care: An Orthopaedic Model
  Anthony DiGioia III, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  Pamela K Greenhouse, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  Timothy Levison, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Do patients treated with dignity report higher satisfaction, adherence, and receipt of preventive care?
  Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Rachel L. Johnson, MD, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Jose J. Arbelaez, MD, MHS, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Patrick S. Duggan, AB, Johns Hopkins University
  Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Better physician–patient relationships are associated with higher reported adherence to antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV infection
  John Schneider, University of Chicago
  Sherrie H. Kaplan, University of California Irvine
  Sheldon Greenfield, University of California Irvine
  Wenjun Li, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  Ira B. Wilson, Tufts-New England Medical Center

• A retrospective evaluation of the impact of the Planetree patient-centered model of care on inpatient quality outcomes
  Susan Stone, Ph.D., Sharp Coronado Hospital

• Spontaneous talking time at start of consultation in outpatient clinic: cohort study
  Wolf Langewitz, University Hospital, Switzerland
  Martin Denz, University Hospital, Switzerland
  Anne Keller, Forel-Klinik, Ellikon an der Thur, Switzerland
  Alexander Kiss, University Hospital, Switzerland
  Sigmund Rütimann, Kantonsspital, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  Brigitta Wössmer, University Hospital, Switzerland